[3][4] The trust used Datix in 2022 to report inappropriate attendances at A&E to GP practices.

[5] In 2019 the trust announced plans to end open access to the Accident and Emergency department.

The plan is that patients will arrive at a newly built urgent treatment centre at Colchester hospital run by the trust and the local GP confederation which will deal with minor injuries and illnesses.

From there the trust expects less than half of the present numbers will need the A&E department.

[6] It launched an automated e-referrals process in 2019 which it said saved 27,000 hours of staff time in the first sixteen months of operation.