Please help solve the issue or ward round lists to give hospital doctors back 1-2 hours of their day.
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Hugh O’Sullivan
Every day junior hospital doctors spend 1-2 hours of their day updating their ward round lists. They come to work in the morning, add the new patients to their patient list that have been admitted overnight, update the test, issues and plans for each patient (sometimes up to 40 patients). They then rush around to see all the patients, do the jobs, update the families before sitting down to update the same list again. This often keeps them late on their shift as it needs to be done before the next morning or else the doctor will need to come in even earlier the next day and this cycle of over-working continues. The administrative burden is huge, this is one of the reasons I burnt out in my hospital work when I was younger and needed to take time off. If Heidi could help clinicians with this issue it would become even more of a game changer! This is the case for most hospitals across Australia - sheets and sheets of patient information that has been edited and updated for years and years.