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‘Urgent vs emergency hospital care in Gloucestershire’ – A Senior Doctor’s view
Within the proposals, set out by the local Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust, to downgrade Cheltenham General’s Full “Type 1” A&E department to a “Type 3” Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC)*, the local NHS suggests that the individual patients will be personally...
The challenges in planning and running an Accident and Emergency service
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) has the busiest Accident and Emergency (A&E) service in the whole of the South West of England. In a single month (July 2019) GHNHSFT treated 14,066 patients at the two major A&E departments at...
“To have a fully functioning, fully staffed A&E Department operating 24/7 re-instated at Cheltenham General Hospital, which serves a population of at least 200,000 in Cheltenham, Tewkesbury Borough, and the North Cotswolds, at the earliest possible opportunity.”
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