Getting Home in Time for Tea: Streamlining Discharges From a General Paediatric Ward

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This quality improvement project focused on improving the timelines of discharges on a general paediatric ward. Through numerous PDSA cycles a significant improvement in the number of patients being discharged earlier in the day was achieved.

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