The identification of the critically ill or deteriorating patient is the key to preventing admission or readmission to the critical care facility. ‘Comprehensive Critical Care’ (DoH 2000)

The Intensive Care Society (ICS) document that details a more comprehensive classification for critically ill patients than was previously available (revised 2008).

Independent Healthcare Association. September 2002.

Produced by an Independent Healthcare Association Working Group. This document is intended to provide guidance to drive good...

This report sets out a programme of action to help to secure the nursing contribution to the national critical care programme- Comprehensive Critical Care (2000). It was developed in response...

This HSC summarises the modernisation programme for critical care services following the publication of Comprehensive Critical Care, the Report of the Expert Group on Critical Care Services and...

In April 1999, the Department of Health established a review of adult critical care services, and appointed an expert group to develop a framework for the future organisation and delivery of...

NICE Clinical Guideline July 2007. This guideline describes how patients in acute hospitals should be monitored to help identify those whose health becomes worse and how they should be...