Emergency nurse : the journal of the RCN Accident and Emergency Nursing Association
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Until recently, adult safeguarding policies at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust did not cover domestic abuse, except in maternity services. While trying to remedy this deficit, the trust discovered several problems in information sharing and data protection, which led to consideration of how safeguarding alerts are handled and processed on patient arrival. This article explains how the trust solved these problems by setting up a safeguarding log to alert staff to at-risk patients.
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The National Emergency Medicine Programme Strategy is a comprehensive plan to improve and develop emergency care in Ireland. It recommends significant changes in how emergency care is organised and delivered so that patients can be confident that they will receive high quality, safe and timely care. Emergency nurses were involved in developing aspects of the strategy document and will play a crucial role in its implementation to ensure that patient outcomes and satisfaction with emergency care services in Ireland are improved.