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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social

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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)
Liverpool, England Joined April 2013
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social @VickyKomrower
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”!
Adrian Boyle @RCEMPolicyVP 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/10.118…
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social @VickyKomrower
Excellent points from Ian here. It is not inevitable and we need to push very hard to stop this undignified and dangerous situation.
Ian Higginson @RCEMpresident Dec 30, 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 @VickyKomrower
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.
Tom Roberts @DrTomRoberts Dec 12, 2025
@DrRosena @APPGEmgcyCare 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/emerme…
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Vicky Komrower/Price. now vickyprice@bsky.social @VickyKomrower
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” 🤣
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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