TY - JOUR T1 - Promoting appropriate medical discharges over the weekend – is 7-day working a reality? JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 71 LP - 71 DO - 10.7861/futurehealth.6-2-s71 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Alex Fulton AU - Sam Heward AU - Sally Briggs AU - Jennifer Beynon AU - Jayne Little Y1 - 2019/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_2/71.abstract N2 - Timely discharge of patients is important for patient safety and satisfaction as well as patient flow and health economics. Improving hospital discharges and promotion of a 7-day service are key priorities of NHS England. Discharging medical patients from hospital over the weekend can be challenging due to both intrinsic and extrinsic issues. We aimed to explore these issues, identify key areas for improvement and increase the number or patients appropriately discharged over the weekend at a major acute teaching hospital in Manchester.Routinely collected data was explored to calculate the following information relating to discharges of medical patients over a 12 month period from 1 … ER -