Creating teams for acute clinical services.
This article discusses how a project group at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, developed four multiprofessional teams that can provide first responses for acutely ill inpatients on both of the trust's hospital sites, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London.
Hendron
Alison
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Okunuga
Chinyama
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