New Causeway Hospital Ambulatory unit
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00:00I'm just going to take your temperature, OK?
00:02Just pull this in here.
00:04That's grand.
00:05So the ambulatory unit, it is a unit that we can help reduce the times, waiting times for patients.
00:11It's longer waiting, ED, obviously, but when you come to the ambulatory unit,
00:14we try and make the time shorter for you.
00:16And we also do same-day care, so patients come in, we sort them out,
00:21and then away home to their own beds that night.
00:24It has drastically cut down in A&E waiting times.
00:27It has improved flow in A&E.
00:30There's a four-and-a-half-hour turnaround time.
00:33This includes initial assessment, diagnostics, senior review, and going home with a therapy plan.
00:40It's an exciting new chapter for the cause by this unit.
00:42It's forward planning and forward thinking.
00:45We've repurposed the building, actually.
00:47The unit itself, before I started, was a storeroom for this last 20 years,
00:51and the unit we have virtually opened with zero budget.
00:54And with significant impact already seen in the last two months of operation.
00:58Overall, our unit has exceeded expectations.
01:00We were initially projected to see 100 patients a month.
01:03We have almost doubled that, and we hope to continue to grow and expand as time goes on.