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What is NEWS2?
NEWS2 is an approach to standardising the assessment of, and response to, acute illness. It consists of a scoring system based on a number of simple criteria which helps improve the detection of clinical deterioration in patients.
Locally, all acute hospitals and the ambulance trust in the North West Coast have adopted NEWS2.
The aim is for NEWS2 to become the ‘common language’ for communicating patient deterioration across the whole system and its use is now being explored in out-of-hospital settings as well, again with the support of the Patient Safety Collaborative.