More than half of A&E patients not given critical medicines, report warns
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PATIENTS in A&E face serious complications from missing doses of prescription medicines while waiting days to be seen, a new report warns.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) study, released today, found that more than half of patients are not identified as being on time-critical medicines (TCM) within 30 minutes of arriving at an A&E.
Nearly seven in 10 doses are not administered within 30 minutes of the expected time.
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