Safety recommendation
It is recommended that the Royal College of Emergency Medicine should provide standardised discharge information for clinicians to offer to women following discharge from the emergency department with a problem in early pregnancy and while awaiting further assessment by early pregnancy services.
Response:
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) is happy to accept the safety recommendation made by HSIB.
The RCEM will be developing a patient leaflet template to be made available on the RCEM website.
The template will form the basis for a discharge advice leaflet. Clinicians can offer the leaflet to women who have been discharged from emergency departments after experiencing a problem in early pregnancy and who need to attend an early pregnancy service at a later date.
Clinicians can adapt the template to reflect their local service arrangements and include relevant details of their local departments.
In addition to the leaflet template, the RCEM will be releasing a safety flash that will reference the event from the HSIB investigation as well as a link to the HSIB report.
The safety flash will also include a link to the RCEM leaflet template and RCEM recommendations on important information to be included in the discharge leaflet.
Response received on 6 January 2021.