Emergency Body Wants Wales to Reject Walk-in Centres for Sick
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Political parties urged to rethink, but nurses strongly disagree Emergency body wants Wales to reject walk-in centres for sick Madeleine Brindley 2007-05-03T13:44:28 EMERGENCY staff are urging politicians to abandon plans to set up NHS walk-in centres in Wales. They claim that these nurse-led alternative health centres will not reduce pressure on accident and emergency departments. Instead they fear they will increase the number of patients seeking help for minor illnesses and accidents. The calls come after three of Wales main political parties pledged to set up walk-in centres if they form a government in the aftermath of the Assembly election. Labour is the exception, it has instead proposed setting up pharmacy-based NHS drop in centres to make health care more convenient for patients. The National Assembly voted in favour of the principle of setting up walk-in centres in 2005.
But the Welsh Emergency Departments Federation (WEDFed), which represents emergency doctors, nurses and other health professionals, claims Wales must not repeat the mistakes that England made when it set up a network of these nurse-led centres.See the full content of this document
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Emergency Body Wants Wales to Reject Walk-in Centres for Sick
It has written to the leaders of each party, asking them to reconsider.
Suzanne Wyatt, a consultant in emergency medicine at the Princess of Wales Hospital...See the full content of this document
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