Hospitals can prevent discharge delays and enhance patient transfers by streamlining referral management processes. These include adopting proven protocols, technology, and reducing staff’s administrative burdens. Bottlenecks can arise from factors such as manual paper-based referral systems, disjointed processes, inconsistent discharge standards, prior authorization delays, and transportation holdups. Effective strategies include increased cross-department collaboration and advance transportation arrangements, adoption of technology to break down silos, and remodeling the referral management process.
Thousands of London NHS hospital appointments and procedures postponed after cyber attack
A cyber attack on June 3, targeting pathology services provider Synnovis, led to over 6,000 appointments and procedures being postponed at major London hospitals. Among
