Critical Care Transfers
It is vital that critically ill or injured patients are treated rapidly in an acute hospital in order to stabilise them or limit their injuries. However, there are several instances when such management may be followed by further (secondary) transfer to another acute hospital:
- Clinical transfer– when the facilities needed for definitive treatment are not available at the initial hospital.
- Capacity transfer– when the initial hospital has inadequate equipment, bed capacity, staffing or monitoring to provide the necessary care.
- Repatriation–highly specialised hospitals may need to transfer patients to ensure they can treat the next patient who needs their specialist facilities. Patients may also be moved back to hospitals nearer to their home and family. In these cases, patients will have had their specialist treatment, are almost always stable and the transfer may involve a step-down in the level of their care.
Critical Care Safe Transfer TrainingPlease contact your WYCCN Critical Care Clinical Educator to book on transfer training dates for 2021.
We have put together some transfer training videos you may find useful. Take a look here >>>>>> West Yorkshire Critical Care Transfer Training Handbook
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WYCCODN Critical Care Transfer Guidance
The Intra Hospital Transfer Form can be downloaded and printed from the above file.
For additional A3 Inter Hospital Transfer Forms please contact samantha.rogers3@nhs.net who will happily send some to you. | ||||||||
