Answering a few of the comment. 1) Yes feedback would be very helpful, especially because we are all supposed to be reflective practitioners now - sadly part of the problem is that we don't have the time to chase up patients at the hospital - we need to turn our jobs around in 28 minutes otherwise certain high ranking management types start to get upset about ORCON going out the window. 2) Tracking patients also has implications for patient confidentiality - they may have told hospital staff things that they didn't want us to know, there is a chance of ethical problems there. 3) Of-times A&E send patients up to the wards not knowing the full out-come. And it's sometimes hard to find out what ward a patient has ended up on, couple that with us not having the same 'relationship' with ward nurses as we do with A&E nurses. 4) Most of our jobs are so run of the mill we seldom worry about our treatment of our patient. 5) I'm yet to receive anything other than the most cursory feedback on anything from *within* the LAS, expecting other trusts to give us feedback is a bit of a stretch. 6) Sometimes we can find out - an interesting example of which will be blogged about in the near future, maybe even tomorrow...