What are the benefits of having a specialist emergency care hospital?
There are lots of benefits to having a single dedicated a specialist emergency care hospital. It would mean that: Patients are seen quicker by a variety…
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How would I be treated in an emergency?
Our proposed changes to the way we deliver emergency care would mean that, in a life or limb-threatening emergency, patients from Surrey Downs, Sutton and Merton…
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Where would I go if I was having a suspected heart attack?
If you have a cardiac arrest (your heart stops), paramedics would perform emergency resuscitation on you. They would then decide on the best place for you…
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If I have to have an emergency operation, would I be able to stay at the specialist emergency care hospital for my recovery if this was nearer to my home?
Following your emergency care, our aim would be to get you back home as soon as possible. However, depending on your condition, the doctors and nurses…
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Will both hospitals have pathology labs and MRI/CT scanners or in urgent cases will patients and samples have to be transferred between hospitals?
Both hospitals will have diagnostics (including MRI/CT scanners) and pathology to support the need for urgent tests to be carried out.
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How would the one hospital that has the emergency care centre cope with all the demand?
Our proposal for one specialist emergency care hospital would improve the recovery of our patients and lead to faster diagnosis, earlier treatment and improved clinical outcomes….
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How can a single A&E meet the four hour target when two units fail to meet it on a regular basis?
Our doctors and nurses recognise situations every day where care would have been provided to a much higher standard and would have been safer if we…
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Do you know what the present percentage is of people coming into the A&E without a life-threatening injury or illness?
We know from our hospital figures that only around one third of people who attend our A&E department need emergency care and therefore have a potential…
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