Summary
Hospitals across the West Country have been "fined" for failing to meet targets for the time it takes to hand-over patients between ambulances and accident and emergency departments.
The figure illustrate the pressure that hospitals are under striving to deal with increasing numbers of patients. Hospitals in the West have been fined a total of Pounds 730,000, for taking longer than the 15 minutes the Department for Health insists is the minimum.See the full content of this document
Extract
; Patient Handovers Are Critically Slow
Yeovil Hospital in Somerset incurred Pounds 42,000 worth of charges and had the longest average handover time i...
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