management Decisions informed by senior clinicians team before from theatres and surgery considering risk transferring new to clinically urgent, cancer wait patients or additional and capacity for emergency patients patients to Recovery Consideration to the risk to Critical Theatre and Care expansion area in Paediatric Anaesthetic Recovery if used for outlying of surgical staff redeployed and medical patients to Recovery and clinical areas There is risk of prolonged occupation of outside recovery, because of poor selection of Theatres outlier patients, to the capacity to treat inpatient and day cases on both E and D level (typically 50% of day cases are patients being investigated or treated for cancer) Theatres and Implement MI Plan Life and Limb surgery only urgent – EXTERNAL Recovery used to senior clinical review by all surgical MAJOR the needs of specialties to prioritise cases. INCIDENT and risk to the Regular review of emergency capacity hospital on the day and for next 48 hours by senior clinicians from Surgery and Theatre
management team before transferring new or additional patients to Recovery Theatre and Anaesthetic staff redeployed to Recovery and clinical areas outside Theatres Decisions informed by senior clinicians from theatres and surgery considering risk to clinically urgent, cancer wait patients and capacity for emergency patients Consideration to the risk to Critical Care expansion area in Paediatric Recovery if used for outlying of surgical and medical patients There is risk of prolonged occupation of recovery, because of poor selection of outlier patients, to the capacity to treat inpatient and day cases on both E and D level (typically 50% of day cases are patients being investigated or treated for cancer) EXTERNAL MAJOR INCIDENT Theatres and Recovery used to the needs of and risk to the hospital Implement MI Plan Life and Limb surgery only – urgent senior clinical review by all surgical specialties to prioritise cases. Regular review of emergency capacity on the day and for next 48 hours by senior clinicians from Surgery and Theatre
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