Discharge summaries often bury the requests to primary care — repeat a blood test, adjust a dose, chase a result, review in two weeks — in the middle of the text. Read each one for explicit actions, assign each an owner and date in the practice system, and code it so that it surfaces if missed.
- Highlight every requested action on the discharge summary.
- Give each action a named owner and a due date.
- Flag patients with dementia or a carer for a direct call after discharge.
Why it matters
An action that nobody owns is the one that gets missed.
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