Connecting for Health causing delays in Enfield
August 10, 2008
The Guardian reports on new figures from Enfield including that 272 operations were cancelled in May for non-clinical reasons, which it assumes means computer errors. Surely there are lots of other reasons to cancel procedures?
My own experience is that while new computer systems can speed certain things up, such as requesting scans and making appointments, bugs and oversights in the programming of the software which can, at best be frustrating, and at worst lead to potentially dangerous delays and errors.
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thejobbingdoctor | August 10, 2008 at 5:25 am
Welcome to the blogging world, Dr Jo.
We seem to be replicating at the speed of bacteria! Even at the speed of MRSA!
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TheShrink | August 10, 2008 at 9:55 am
Surely the commonest reason for cancelling clinical activity isn’t on the clinical grounds that the intervention is no longer appropriate, it’s that the clinican’s not going to be there!
Lists are booked all year round then folk take annual and study leave. CaB doesn’t know when folk are going to be on leave and although clinical activity booked through CaB is high priority and in theory “must” be delivered, in the really real world this can’t happen.