TY - JOUR T1 - 7-day acute respiratory service – a feasibility and impact study JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s11 LP - s11 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.4-2-s11 VL - 4 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Arvind Rajasekaran AU - Guy Hagan AU - Martin Chadderton AU - Sarb Clare Y1 - 2017/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/Suppl_2/s11.abstract N2 - Our trust operates out of two acute hospitals and intends to consolidate acute care into one new hospital with a reduced bed base in 2018. Our specialty experiences a high readmission rate (13% compared with national average 6%), and the second highest number of cross-specialty consults, with only 59% seen within 24 hours (local standard 90%). Feedback from trainees contained adverse comments on high workload and supervision. These were the drivers for us to devise a 7-day pilot for 1 week … ER -