Can accident prevention save the NHS?

摘要

Dr Clifford Mann, president of the College of Emergency Medicine delivered the annual Allan St John Holt Memorial Lecture last month, telling the audience of doctors, safety and health professionals and business leaders that reducing A&E attendances due to preventable injuries would relieve pressure on the NHS frontline. However, he added, accident prevention is a largely untapped resource for relieving this pressure. Dr Mann, whose organisation represents more than 4,000 emergency department doctors and consultants, said: "There is a very real opportunity to reduce the toll of easily preventable suffering if government, the NHS, safety organisations, employers, unions and others come together to provide the accident prevention help that families desperately need."