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ReSPECT stands for Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment. It is an emergency care and treatment plan (ECTP) used in parts of the United Kingdom, in which personalized recommendations for future emergency clinical care and treatment are created through discussion between health care professionals and a person (or their legal proxy or those close to them). [1]
One of London Ambulance Service's frontline vehicles The London Air Ambulance in action Peugeot Ambulance of the Scottish Ambulance Service. Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly provided free at the point of use by the four National Health Services (NHS) of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern ...
Secondary care (sometimes termed acute health care) can be either elective care or emergency care and providers may be in the public or private sector, but the majority of secondary care happens in NHS owned facilities. [12] The Care Quality Commission is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It ...
Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.
Care in transit -– the emergency medical service load the patient in to suitable transport and continue to provide appropriate medical care throughout the journey Transfer to definitive care – the patient is handed over to an appropriate care setting, such as the emergency department at a hospital, in to the care of physicians
NHS targets are performance measures used by NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the Health and Social Care service in Northern Ireland.These vary by country but assess the performance of each health service against measures such as 4 hour waiting times in Accident and Emergency departments, weeks to receive an appointment and/or treatment, and performance in specific departments such as ...
The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, declared a climate emergency in April and produced a sustainable development management plan in January 2020. This plans to save approximately 2 million pieces of plastic cutlery and 800,000 straws and stirrers per year by switching to sustainable alternatives.
In late 2017 the plans to reorganise NHS hospital services in Dorset were laid out in full by Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and were unanimously agreed by health leaders. [8] The plans aimed to create a Major Planned Care Hospital at Poole and a Major Emergency Hospital at Bournemouth as well as reduce a projected £158m-a-year ...