Doctors pls take note

'Treat patients as people not conditions': Doctors and nurses ORDERED to carry out bedside visits

 

Fresh guidelines issued today by the Royal College of Physicians say that daily ward rounds are essential for patient safety and care.

The advice comes after warnings that over-stretched medical staff were starting to see their patients as conditions, rather than people.
Suzy Hughes, chairman of RCPs’ Patient and CareGroup, said: ‘There’s been a gradual erosion in what I would call a good ward-round.
‘We do tend to miss there’s a whole person there, not just a medical condition sitting in front of us.'