A stroke unit in a district general hospital: the Greenwich experience.

Abstract

and conclusionsA study was made of all patients admitted to a geriatric unit over several years.The admission policy included a high degree of priority to requests for transfer from acute beds, which resulted in transferred patients accounting for 25% of admissions.Unblocking acute beds did not lead to prolonged delay in admitting patients from the community to the geriatric unit.Almost 30% of beds allocated to transferred patients were recovered in 30 days.