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System Pressures piece on the BBC

NHS Lothian
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Longer waiting times in our Emergency Departments are usually caused by the volume of activity going on in other parts of our healthcare system. Staff at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh talked to BBC Scotland’s Health Correspondent Lisa Summers recently about what we call ‘flow’.

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