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Vivian Evans's avatar

Excellent analysis, dear old geezers! Here's a cartoon by Matt which illustrates it nicely:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/matt-cartoons-july-2025/

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Carl Heneghan's avatar

Spot on

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James Jones's avatar

just more of the same; floundering around; people a million miles away from patient care; being X-Spurts; they just need to print up a whole pile more of large wall charts that can be hung near clinical staff; so with an acute case, folks can glance up and instantly see the right things to do; go on; you know it makes sense; flood the system with endless wall charts; as the advice goes, "If all else fails, read the instructions".

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Brian Finney's avatar

'next time we see a patient having a cardiac arrest'

Keep up! Prevention is a key part of the Plan, we will not behaving cardiac arrests!

If only this purported prevention was EBM. A RCT is sales patter not real life evidence.

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Seb Thirlway's avatar

"Train to Task" sounds like just _begging_ for this scenario to happen. Continually. Everywhere:

"Right, we need to do [x] for this patient

- But I'm not trained for that task

- Can't you just do it?

- Well, I know how to, but I haven't had the official training...

- OK, good enough, let's go!

[enter management, and insurers, and lawyers...]

- Hold on! Are you seriously letting this person do something they're _not trained for_???????

[endless discussion...]

[patient dies in the mean time]

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