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The Incumbent Victoria Atkins & heir-apparent Wes Streeting MP as SoS for Department of Health and Social Care are currently sharing a raft of ideas for tackling the huge & growing waiting lists: Private Capacity & the role of Community Diagnostic Centres in helping cut waiting lists https://lnkd.in/eCgB6ZV8 Katharine Halliday President of The Royal College of Radiologists issued a clear response which is welcome but (IMHO) there are ancillary aspects of workflow, throughput & #burnout to acknowledge even when we don't fish in the same NHS pond for CDC or Private Sector staff. https://lnkd.in/eJn2_7qf I try to spell this out further so there is a clear understanding that by not considering ALL the factors of workflow that affect capacity, what we potentially do is increase the mental toil on NHS departments/ radiologists by squeezing time to report complex cases This way lies increasing errors and higher risk of burnout leading to reduced capacity: 🏥 Everyone acknowledges we need more diagnostic capacity & need to reduce turnaround time for the investigations INCLUDING the reports. No need to revisit "Imaging isn't just the scanner throughput (ironically that's partly the focus of this thread) but staff to scan & to report the images" is there?? 🩻Let's also assume the utopia that a CDC "wash its own face" with staff not rob the NHS Peter to pay the CDC Paul AND indeed can consume its own smoke so it is a "scan and report" not "scan and send" service 🧠 The argument for case complexity has ALSO already been made many times: The idea of "reducing burden" in healthcare by outsourcing the "simple" work from an undifferentiated case mix to less qualified (not trying to be salty!) cohort be it AHPs or AI or the Private Sector leaving the complex cases for those most qualified to report (Consultant Radiologists) ⚠ So we have 1. Too much work already for scanners that scan faster than humans can report 2. More workload across ALL types of requests: Emergency Inpatient, Urgent Outpatient, "routine" Outpatient ⏱ Workload in any 1 session for the CT Radiologist is balanced by the scanners doing a mix of urgent cases: reports within 30-60min vs within that session alongside scans that can be picked up outwith the session by others or at another time. This allows the Radiologist to have a fighting chance of actually safely reporting the undifferentiated case mix within that session & getting the urgent reports back to the clinicians in time to manage care AND pick up other cases as time allows 🔥 Now much of the "breathing space" non-urgent work will go to CDC so ALL the scanner capacity in hospital will be complex work needing rapid turnaround. Same will be true for on call & weekends This is WAY more than the Radiologist can safely report will ⏫ pressure accelerating burnout

Australian Pathology Providers take note of this post… They get it in England, ALL people in the chain of Pathology Collection, transport and testing are vital to maintaining the operations, especially in Outpatient Services. ASX listed companies, funded by Medicare, who provide all of Australia’s outpatient pathology services, believe that their employees will stay in a role that is remunerated with no value for the work they do and the average wage is $28.00 a hour. If you have noticed the lack of availability of Pathology Collection Centres near you, this is the results of the Staffing and Skills Crisis. Refusing to increase these anymore than just over the same percentage as the minimum wage increases during EBA negotiations is demonstrating the lack of dignity for Valued Wages for Skilled workers. Our private pathology pathology staff can easily earn $5-$7 a hour more in the inpatient Public Sector Pathology Services. They can also earn the same wage they are currently earning by restocking supermarket shelves overnight without the skill or risks that come with the job. Mark Butler is too busy to engage with the Industry on this issue and despite our warnings that Private Pathology Workers in Australia are preparing to take to the streets, defends the ongoing funding of Private Pathology without further governance.

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Unlock the Potential of Rapid Diagnostics on Sepsis and Pneumonia at the 20th Emirates Critical Care Conference (ECCC Dubai 2024). Join the bioMérieux team during our symposium at the Intercontinental Hotel on Sunday, May 12th to learn more about this topic. #PioneeringDiagnostics

Unlock the Potential of Rapid Diagnostics on Sepsis and Pneumonia at the 20th Emirates Critical Care Conference (ECCC Dubai 2024). Join the bioMérieux team during our symposium at the Intercontinental Hotel on Sunday, May 12th to learn more about this topic. #PioneeringDiagnostics

Unlock the Potential of Rapid Diagnostics on Sepsis and Pneumonia at the 20th Emirates Critical Care Conference (ECCC Dubai 2024). Join the bioMérieux team during our symposium at the Intercontinental Hotel on Sunday, May 12th to learn more about this topic. #PioneeringDiagnostics