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2046 'Call before Convey - Delivering urgent care for patients in the right place with the right clinician, first time

Emergency Medicine Journal

Aims and Objectives Aim: Ensure patients have timely access to the right urgent care, in the right place with the right clinician. Many people access urgent care via the emergency department (ED) resulting in poor patient experience, delays to care and duplication, also causing overcrowding, leading to harm.

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Getting Treatment With Delta Fears

Medical Law

One of the greatest fears underlying the COVID-19 pandemic has been that the healthcare system would be overwhelmed with the sheer numbers of patients, and others needing care would have to be turned away. Now that the Delta variant is surging in California and other areas of the country, some hospitals have been forced to ration care.