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The Acute Episode Pathway

Getting the best care for urgent conditions and in emergencies

1
This chapter (based on the work of the Acute Episode CPG – full report available at www.yorksandhumber.nhs.uk) sets out what we need to do to make sure everyone can get the best acute care.

2
Across Y&H patients rely on the NHS if they need urgent or emergency healthcare. Whether they have a lifethreatening illness such as a stroke, or a major or minor injury, patients have access to a wide range of clinicians including GPs, hospital doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and mental health teams. Everybody – children, adults and older people - can call on the NHS to provide the urgent or emergency healthcare they need, which is free at the point of use. On a typical day in the region 5,000 people will go to A&E, of whom 800 will be admitted to hospital.

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