SUSIE JACKSON: I find it interesting that, while your deep research and insight into people and technology lets you write with such authority, you also make somewhat vulnerable admissions, like that your daughter taught you how to text or use Skype.
Thus, a drawback of the on-off control is that it is highly vulnerable to over-admission, especially when handling a bursty load, which may result in the overloading of the servers.
"Our seaside area also has a high proportion of elderly residents many of whom are geographically distanced from their family members who might otherwise care for them, so the default when they are unwell, or even just vulnerable, is a hospital admission.
The ST population, who is the most vulnerable, had the lowest admission rate of 22/1,000 ST enrolled.
Some of the other suggestions it gave were data sharing to target fuel poverty grants, reducing mortality rates and hospital admissions among vulnerable groups.
The UK has fewer critical care beds per head of population than comparable nations, and Wales fewer still so critical care in Wales is more vulnerable to surges in admissions.
Whilst this may represent an individual or community's strength, our participants expressed concern that these patients might be more vulnerable to frequent and/or avoidable admission through not accessing services which might reduce the future need for admission.
Telling of a 2am walk that finds the streets full of "junkies and homeless" its response holds a still-reeling honesty: the shame at not being able to meet the need or the want, the acknowledgement that in a city we often fail to look the most vulnerable in the eye, the admission that we all "hover between apathy and compassion".
Elective admission is more vulnerable to service factors, such as admission procedures within individual hospitals and waiting list management.
