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    • Emergency Triage maternity setting statement

      The Manchester Triage System “Emergency Triage” was designed to assist registered healthcare professionals (principally Emergency Nurses) to determine the clinical priority of patients attending urgent and emergency care facilities. The Tool consists of a series of charts that, when taken together and used by a trained professional, enable a safe and appropriate decision about clinical priority to be made

      Women attending maternity services whilst pregnant differ in presentation, likely underlying pathology and appropriate assessment, from patients attending Emergency and Urgent Care services. The MTS Board do not support the use of  “Emergency Triage” as the only triage tool in this setting.


    • Every day, Emergency Departments are faced with increasing numbers of patients suffering from a wide range of problems; from minor illness and injury to major trauma and life threatening conditions. In order to ensure patient safety, it is essential that patients are seen in order of clinical priority and not in order of attendance.

      Early Emergency Department triage was intuitive rather than methodological, and rather than being based on clinical evidence, it was based on the practitioners' own experience and clinical judgement; making it neither consistent nor auditable. The use of the Manchester Triage System ensures that a consistent approach to patient assessment and prioritisation is maintained allowing for robust audit and increased patient safety.

      The Manchester Triage System is a clinical risk management tool used by clinicians worldwide to enable them to safely manage patient flow when clinical need far exceeds capacity. It is a professional, expert system and the most, rather than the least experienced personnel in the department should be using it.

      The Manchester Triage System (MTS) was developed solely for registered Health Care Professionals due to the clinical skills and knowledge required in performing a triage assessment. MTG will not support organisations allowing the use of MTS by staff who are non-HCPs. In any medical negligence proceedings where the court requests evidence, MTG will send a letter to this effect.