NHS: Urgent and Emergency Care Review Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Urgent and Emergency Care Review

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Excerpts
Tuesday 12th November 2013

(10 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Portrait Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)
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My Lords, given the urgency of this crisis, what are the Government doing to meet the request from the College of Emergency Medicine that the exit block be urgently addressed, so that other disciplines support emergency medicine consultants in moving patients on from A&E departments out into the community or into in-patient beds if they are not fit enough to be discharged?