Acute care

Revealed: A&E patients at struggling trust admitted to 'virtual ward'

By 2017-02-08T22:00:00

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Source: mario beauregard

A struggling hospital trust has found evidence that breaches of the four hour accident and emergency target may have been under-reported because patients were being admitted to a “virtual” ward even when they were still physically in A&E.

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