One Team Week
Wednesday 7 June – Tuesday 13 June
(including weekend)
GP hotline: 020 7188 4488
One Team Week
Wednesday 7 June – Tuesday 13 June
GP hotline: 020 7188 4488
Goals of the week
In-hospital
• A whole hospital response to current emergency
pressures
• Earlier, quicker availability of senior speciality
decision-makers in the Emergency Department
• More rapid direction of patients to the most
appropriate clinical area outside the ED for
assessment and/or treatment
• To trial new ways of working eg: direct
admissions to the Acute Assessment Ward,
increased mental health support
• To review current escalation procedures
Out of hospital
• Better primary care access to speciality advice
• One number to access decision makers across
all specialities
• More senior advice, more rapidly available
• Direct triage to speciality clinic if appropriate
• Helping to prevent unnecessary emergency
attendances
• Available 24/7
One Team Week
Wednesday 7 June – Tuesday 13 June
GP hotline: 020 7188 4488
• Rapid telephone speciality advice and guidance, 24/7
• We are trialling this as part of a whole organisational response to current emergency pressures. If
successful, we will aim to make sustainable