Urgent and emergency care: a prescription for the future

urgent_and_emergency_care_a_prescription_for_the_future FCThis report sets out ten priorities for action to address the challenges faced by urgent and emergency care services. The challenges discussed in this report include: rising demand; ageing population; complex discharge issues; handover and flow; and recruitment into urgent and emergency care services.

It was jointly produced by The Royal College of Physicians, The NHS Confederation, The College of Emergency Medicine and The Society for Acute Medicine.

The full report is available here.