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    • The Pathfinder tool has been designed specifically for use by both registered and non-registered health-care professionals. It is based on the Manchester Triage System (MTS) and is designed to integrate with a series of tools in other domains which are all based on the same system:

      • Emergency Triage: Emergency departments and Ambulance services
      • Telephone Triage and Advice: Ambulance Services and Urgent Care Centres
      • Nursing and Residential Triage: Nursing and Residential Homes
      • Community Triage: Out of hours and Telemedicine providers; Telecare and Pendant providers; First responder organisations; Community assessment services
      • SAFE pathways: Community-based clinicians


      The six triage tools all share:

      • A reductive methodology identifying life threatening illnesses and injuries first
      • A clinical risk management tool used Worldwide to safely manage patient flow when clinical demand exceeds capacity
      • A common set of discriminators defined in a discriminator dictionary
      • A shared language and common understanding
      • Underpinning training packages and e-learning modules for practitioners
      • A method of streaming for local implementation