RCPE Medical Trainees’ Annual Conference 2020: The On-call Handbook
The Medical Trainees’ annual conference was held on 31 January 2020 at ATC venue in Manchester.
The Medical Trainees’ annual conference was held on 31 January 2020 at ATC venue in Manchester.
Keywords Access, acute medicine, clinical outcomes, competencies
Declaration of Interests No conflict of interests declared.
In secondary care, some patients with acute neurological symptoms are never seen by a neurologist. Rapid access neurology clinics could provide patients with timely access to neurology services. We analysed a retrospective cohort of 12,024 consecutive patients attending the ‘immediate care’ area of the emergency department or the acute medical admissions unit of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. A total of 1,036 patients (9%) presented with a neurological complaint, of whom 680 (66%) did not have any contact with neurology services.