This new article from VitalHub gives an in-depth assessment of the state of emergency care and the current pressures the healthcare system is experiencing. Without widespread reform and innovation, the situation is unlikely to improve with ever increasing backlogs of clinical cases, and delays in the most ill patients accessing emergency and urgent care.
Although the report stops short of recommending any particular solution in terms of diagnostics, there is a growing belief that rapid testing platforms and point of care devices must be adopted to alleviate delays in patient management.
Managing patients in urgent care centres or community diagnostic centres, avoiding referral to emergency care, is clearly a way of safeguarding emergency services for the most unwell. This report should be read in conjunction with national directives to improve the maturity of these decentralised services. There are a number of threads through this report where point of care and rapid diagnostics could help in reducing pressure in the healthcare system, and which is applicable to healthcare provision across global territories.
Tony Cambridge is the Managing Director of Thornhill Healthcare Events and Consultancy, and former Lead Biomedical Scientist in the Pathology Management team of a busy acute care hospital in England. He frequently speaks at national and international healthcare events, and is a key opinion leader for point of care testing. He is also a member…
The company was set up in 2018 by Tony Cambridge MSc. BSc. Lead Biomedical Scientist, who is the managing director. With over 20 years experience in Blood Sciences and more recently Pathology management, Tony set out to provide affordable training opportunities to healthcare organisations through a number of different ways, from small group seminars to…