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initiative there is current discussions with the wider teams to see if we can continue to adapt
the pathway and re implement in the future.
Creating different ways of using the talents and skills of the workforce can allow staff to work
across traditional professional boundaries, and many organizations have maximized the
impact of role developments by appropriate staff utilization and expanded or extended their
scope to meet service demands. All the advanced and consultant radiographer practitioners
involved in the delivery of this pathway have reflected positively on the impact that this
innovative pathway has had on helping to alleviate staff pressures over the pandemic and
maintaining patient throughput. The consensus from the team was that this pathway also
gave the practitioners better job satisfaction and feeling of helping ED with their work load
during this pandemic and cementing a team ethos during this challenging time.
Conclusion
The development of this pathway has demonstrated how advanced and consultant
radiographer practice can be utilised to its full potential and have a positive effect on patient
management, care and innovatively have an impact on patient waiting times. Whilst this
pathway was only implemented for a short period of time, during the peak of the first wave
of the COVID-19 pandemic it demonstrates how radiology pathways can directly impact on
other areas, disciplines and departments. Unfortunately due to reallocation of the mini C arm
and return to normal patient workflow in the fracture clinics the fracture clinic pathway is no
longer in operation however there are discussions about developing parts of the pathway and
reinstating its use in the future.
Acknowledgement
This chapter is dedicated to my mother-in-law Sue Field who unfortunately lost her valiant
and brave battle with cancer on February 26th 2022.
I would like to acknowledge Professor Bev Snaith who helped with the initial set up of the
pathway discussed in the text above.
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