Authors’ Response: Inappropriate Ed Attendances in Northern Ireland: Comment from Rcgp Northern Ireland

Inappropriate Ed Attendances in Northern Ireland: Comment from Rcgp Northern Ireland

Casulty attendances in a semi-rural area in Northern Ireland.

THE FIRST point of contact which an accident or emergency case has with the hospital is the casualty department. By virtue of this very function the casualty department finds it difficult to limit or control the flow of patients through its doors. It is expected to see and examine all comers irrespective of the duration and severity of their complaints. In this exposed position it is little won...

The prevalence of non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) using emergency department (ED) data: a Northern Ireland based study

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of chest pain presentations and the subsequent non-cardiac chest pain diagnoses in an emergency department (ED) over a 3 year period. METHODS Administrative data on ED attendances to an urban general hospital in Northern Ireland between March 2013 and March 2016 were used. Data were coded and analysed to estimate frequencies of 'che...

EILEEN V. FEGAN and RACHEL REBOUCHE NORTHERN IRELAND’S ABORTION LAW: THE MORALITY OF SILENCE AND THE CENSURE OF AGENCY

This article explores the context within which abortion law and discourse in Northern Ireland must be situated and understood, relying in part on post-modern insights into the wider and long-term implications of feminists engaging law and by examining the strategies employed in Northern Ireland around the issue of abortion. In 2001, the Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland) took legal ...

Work load and morbidity in an urban general practice in 1967.

TWO SURVEYS have previously been carried out on work load and morbidity in general practice in Northern Ireland. Crawford (1954) in a two year study considered all aspects of work in his practice with special reference to the relationship of work load and morbidity with age. Maybin (1963) considered work load principally in connection with referral of patients to hospital and hospital admission...