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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FAQs
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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What impact would these proposed changes have on a long term staffing solution?
By transforming our hospitals and providing high quality, safe, sustainable services, we will be able to retain and attract the very best doctors, nurses and other…
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The Improving Healthcare Together model of hospital care proposes significant changes. What does this mean in terms of staff? Is it true there will be fewer doctors, nurses and fewer hospital staff?
We will need all our doctors in the local NHS in the future. Moving to one site will make sure we have senior doctors round the…
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Why are you struggling to recruit doctors and nurses and how will Improving Healthcare Together solve the problem?
Across the UK, there is a severe shortage of healthcare staff. It is becoming more difficult to make sure that we have enough doctors, nurses and…
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Bringing the obstetric and paediatric consultants on to one site will mean that you will have more constants than you need when compared to the standards. Does this mean that there will be redundancies?
There will be no redundancies as a result of the proposed changes. The standards provide a minimum level of staffing and by bringing these services together…
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