title: Discharges. Ready, steady, go.
abstract: Setting up a discharge lounge has proved popular with patients. Referrals from wards have increased but are still spasmodic. When under pressure some staff say they are too busy to transfer patients to the discharge lounge. The ambulance transport service has benefited from being able to pick up most patients awaiting discharge from a single area.
authors.affiliation: Harrogate Health Care Trust, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shore
mesh_terms: D000552:Ambulances; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000639:trends*; D010354:Patient Escort Service; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom