Published: 3 August 2023
Author(s): Catherine Atkin, Thomas Knight, Tim Cooksley, Mark Holland, Chris Subbe, Adrian Kennedy, Ragit Varia, Adnan Gebril, Daniel Lasserson
Section: Original article

Healthcare services are under huge strain, with rising Emergency Department (ED) attendances, increased waiting times for ED assessment and increasing pressures within inpatient services in acute hospitals, where medical emergencies are the most frequent cause of inpatient admission [1]. Within the UK, acute medicine services deliver specialist assessment and management of internal medicine patients referred from Emergency Medicine (EM), primary care, community services and from direct paramedic referral [2].

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