1. Safeguarding Children In The Emergency Department
... attending an ED will be seen and discharged without involvement of any in-patient team (RCN 2010). For the purposes of this essay a child is defined as anyone under the age of 18, as all this is included in all government policies. Accident and Emergency Services for Children was a document written in 1999 by representatives of several Royal Colleges and ... also provides guidance in their document Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013). Although the worry is now with the new reforms to the NHS which is to reduce central direction and introduce more local autonomy in the deliver...
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