What does DU stand for?

This will enable work on a new accident and emergency department, clinical decision unit, a new maternity ward, operating theatres and improvements to the outpatients department to start once the final business case has been approved.

The Assembly Government said it has earmarked more than [pounds sterling]40m to develop a new Accident and Emergency department, a clinical decision unit, a new maternity ward, new operating theatres and improvements to the outpatients department to start, once the final business case has been approved.

Among the findings of the report were: |Receptionists carrying out initial checks on patients; |Two clinical decision units - one unstaffed - used as 'dumping grounds' for A& E patients to avoid missing waiting targets; |Nurses who turned off heart monitors because they didn't understand how to use them; |Delayed operations, with some patients having surgery cancelled four days in a row and left without food, drink or medication; |Vital equipment such as heart defibrilators was not working; |A savings target of [pounds sterling]10million met at the expense of 150 posts, including nurses.

University Campus of UMass Memorial Medical Center has established the Clinical Decision Unit within the Duddie Massad Emergency and Trauma Center.

Reasons why the target has not been met include a lack of in-patient beds to cope with demands from both emergency and scheduled admissions in the emergency department, the clinical decision unit and observation ward.

An ally said recently: "I know there is a policy unit, I know there is a strategy unit, but what we need is a decision unit.

After the procedure, the patient "was returned to the Emergency Department's Clinical Decision Unit, where she began to complain of positional dizziness and nausea.

5m would be found through efficiency savings Staff would be redeployed to other areas Other cuts include pounds 600,000 by cut-ting inappropriate medical admissions to Arrowe Park by opening a pounds 1m clinical decision unit and pounds 350,000 by admitting more routine surgery patients as day cases.