The phrase "acute provision" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning without context.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing specific or urgent provisions, but clarity is essential.
Example: "The acute provision of resources during the crisis was crucial for the community's recovery."
Alternatives: "urgent provision" or "critical provision".
This will require a redirection of resources from acute hospital provision to intermediate care and community-based services.
The improvement in acute care provision was not transmitted to cases where polytrauma was sustained.
Midwives were asked to estimate the travel time required for in labour transfer from their unit to acute service provision.
The number of hospital beds for older people has fallen by nearly half, focusing the NHS role on acute care provision for this population.
Midwives working in units which were distant from acute service provision transferred significantly more cases (60% v 46% t (120) = 3.9; p = 0.0001) and had a lower threshold for transfer (−0.24 v 0.34 t(120) = 3.61; p = 0.0001) than midwives in units near or alongside acute service provision.
As junior doctors rarely work in isolation, the original framework was amplified to include two novel error types which are specific to the team-based nature of acute care provision.
Distance was an influencing factor, midwives working in units which were more distant from acute service provision made significantly more decisions to transfer and were more willing to transfer cases than midwives working in near or alongside midwife led units, or obstetricians.
While local partnerships centred around NHS trusts can most obviously influence acute care provision, they can also (if carefully constructed) bring the same academic rigour to the entire patient pathway from the promotion of health through to the management of chronic illness in the community.
A stratified sampling frame was constructed classifying all CMLUs and MLUs in Scotland by type of maternity unit [ 1], "far/near" based on travel time to acute service provision above or below the mean, and "high /low" reported intrapartum transfer rate based on rates above or below the mean reported rate.
