title: Integrating services to improve patient care.
abstract: Over the past few years there has been an increasing need to reconfigure emergency care service delivery so that patients can be seen and treated as quickly as possible by the right person in the right place at the right time. This reconfiguration requires changes in culture and working practices, and the bringing together of previously disparate services. This article describes how the integration of three distinct but co-located emergency services at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was initiated through the process of practice development unit accreditation.
authors.affiliation: Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Dorset.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Frost
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Bernie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Edward
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation