"The overwhelming feeling is that it is confusing and does put patients at risk," he said. Independent emergency nurse consultant, Grant Williams, said the move was a positive one for agency nurses who can find themselves caught out in an emergency situation because the hospital may have a different "crash call" number to their last place of work. "It is increasingly important to standardise the crash call number because of the greater mobility of staff, a higher reliance on agency staff and an increase in the number of trusts using more than one number due to mergers." "Confusion by staff trying to summon the resuscitation team can lose precious time and put patients' lives at risk", Lord Hunt said. The move is part of a series of decisions being taken as part of Making a Difference, an NHS strategy dedicated to removing unnecessary or bureaucratic burdens on frontline staff. Rising staff mobility across NHS trusts requires employers to adopt a generic number to alert staff to clinical emergencies, Lord Hunt said today.Īn NPSA patient safety alert has been issued urging all trusts to use the number 2222. Research by the NPSA has shown there are at least 27 different numbers currently used in hospitals in England and Wales. A crash call or cardiac arrest call number is used by hospital staff to summon an emergency care team to patients suffering a cardiac arrest.
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