Wonderfully lucky wife and mum to 3 angels. Love being an acute physician AKA Dr Price at LUFT! Proud to be President for SAM (society for acute medicine)
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
Mar 16
CPD Whilst you Wee this month on Learning Disability
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Excellent thread. More evidence of harm of long ED stays. I’m really concerned that efforts to reduce corridor care will actually make this worse if not implemented properly. We need to keep reviewing 12 hour waits and a cupboard in ED is not “off the clock”!
Mar 17
The association between long emergency department stays and inpatient length of stay: a retrospective cohort study | BMC Emergency Medicine | Springer Nature Link. Published today by my residents. Another harm of long ED stays… 1/n link.springer.com/article/10…
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
Mar 11
Are you an Acute Medic & Do you want to help End Corridor Care?
Acute Medics as Improvers is a Quality Improvement course designed to help acute clinicians enhance their QI skills and deliver impactful changes.
Be part of the solution - Register here
acutemedicine.org.uk/sam-eve…
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
30 Dec 2025
“It’s basically impossible to provide decent care in a corridor… There's no privacy. We're unable to examine patients properly. We're unable to treat them properly.”
@RCEMPresident talked to @GMB about the now 'normalised' but unnacceptable practice of corridor care.
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Excellent points from Ian here. It is not inevitable and we need to push very hard to stop this undignified and dangerous situation.
30 Dec 2025
We’ve been pushing against the normalisation of corridor care today across several media outlets. It isn’t inevitable, but it needs political will and good leadership to fix. Maybe in 2026 …?
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
17 Dec 2025
Twenty failing trusts need new ‘intervention’ approach, says Mackey ift.tt/lGeJY9I
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I did not know this!
18 Dec 2025
In pregnancy, more than 90% of deep vein thromboses occur in which leg?
A. Right
B. Left
C. Bilateral equally
D. Depends on trimester
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
15 Dec 2025
The Society for Acute Medicine and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists came together to explore the unique role of the Acute OT.
An exciting project to highlight the essential role that OT's play in our Acute Hospitals; how we can best utilise & support this workforce
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
15 Dec 2025
SAM in the News
tinyurl.com/vkpesytm
BBC
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Guardian
shorturl.at/aVPIC
Standard
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Independent
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Daily Mail
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Daily Mirror
tinyurl.com/ytc6ftnp
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Absolutely echo this. This week has been particularly bleak. It is truly horrific to see patients who have been sat in a waiting room whilst unwell, getting no sleep for in excess of 48 hours. This is being reported throughout the four nations.
12 Dec 2025
Thank you for all your work on corridor care. Our @ternfellow corridor study from 165 EDs paints a bleak picture.
-1 in 5 patients in corridors
- 25% of EDs with no resus cubicles
- patients waiting for admission stuck in ED > than those in corridors
doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2025…
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
12 Dec 2025
If you think managing patients with delirium is stressful, think about how it feels for the patient experiencing it. #delirium
I was taught that delirium survivors may develop PTSD from the experience.
12 Dec 2025
"I was so afraid, so afraid, and I cried and shouted…. I was certainly very afraid… I was convinced that they were going to kill me."
#Delirium
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
12 Dec 2025
SAM in the News
tinyurl.com/vkpesytm
BBC
tinyurl.com/2tshemnt
Guardian
shorturl.at/aVPIC
Standard
shorturl.at/Ewhbr
Independent
shorturl.at/0Qf1J
Daily Mail
shorturl.at/PGg6T
Daily Mirror
tinyurl.com/ytc6ftnp
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This is so important. We are stuck in reactive and things won’t alter until we move to reflective. ( although I’m less happy about the earworm “star trekking” 🤣
7 Dec 2025
A ‘reflective improvement’ approach to patient flow uses different data: ‘Patients plural’ - instead of ‘patient singular’ - data. Such data (the solid black layer) enables the possibility of *strategic* interventions (the blue layer) whereby clinical teams might identify cohorts of patients whose stays could be shortened or even avoided altogether.
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
6 Dec 2025
Half of trainee British doctors finishing this summer had no job lined up.
Yet the NHS is poaching foreign doctors. One in six of Nigeria's are now in the UK.
The real scandal isn't pay: it's a broken training pipeline. My column:-
times-comment.com/nhs
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
5 Dec 2025
"NHSE seem adamantine in their refusal to see the problem as one of exit block..."
5 Dec 2025
Wes Streeting has promised to end corridor care in A&E by 2029. That's good.
It is also achievable, though not all the experts agree: independent.co.uk/news/healt…
The key is having the right focus, incentives and policy...
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Absolutely not @Channel4News The people who are spending >48 hours in ED as lodged patients do not have minor illnesses. They are unwell and mostly frail and vulnerable with many in last year of life as our study showed. @acutemedicine
4 Dec 2025
Patients are being urged not to clog up A&E with minor conditions like blocked noses, earache and ingrowing toenails, which could be dealt with elsewhere.
NHS figures show that last winter there were almost 100,000 visits for sore throats and 384 for hiccups.
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a good resource from GIRFT
3 Dec 2025
GIRFT has launched a poster to help ED & AMU teams deliver safe, efficient care for adults with diabetes at the hospital front door.
Includes QR codes for quick access to key pathways.
📥 Download & display: ow.ly/iQ7w50Xt3jY
#Diabetes #DiabetesCare #NHS
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Absolutely. This is not a unique hospital. This is the normal in most hospitals across the 4 nations.
3 Dec 2025
"Our staff do an amazing job in very difficult circumstances, but corridor care affects their own mental health and put patients’ lives at risk."
Dr Ian Higginson, RCEM President, speaking following the publication of the @theRCN's 'Bracing for Winter' report, which touches on the important issue of so-called 'Corridor Care'.
Our full response here:
rcem.ac.uk/press-release/rce…
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
1 Dec 2025
SAM's Guideline of the Week
Acute Care Toolkit 15 is your go-to guide for addressing medical issues during pregnancy on the medical take, AMU or SDEC.
rcp.ac.uk/media/pnsglw10/acu…
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social retweeted
26 Nov 2025
I tried drawing coloured rectangles to show what happened to an AMU between 2019-20 and 2023-24. Admissions reduced; stays lengthened. The blue rectangle had the 'viscosity' of water; the red one had the 'viscosity' of honey!
@dr_allancameron @VickyKomrower @acutemedicine @nickscr1 @DrLKVaughan @jfdwolff @RCEMPolicyVP @whitefleece8127 @fourhourtarget
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