About urgent and emergency care
Our ambition is to ensure patients get the right care in the right place, whenever they need it.
NHS 111
NHS 111 is the free number to call when you have an urgent healthcare need. It directs you to the right local service, first time.
Ambulance Response Programme
This programme will make sure that the best, high quality, most appropriate response is provided for each patient first time.
From hospital to home
How we’re supporting the health and care system to work together to improve social care and community services.
Urgent and emergency care vanguards
Eight vanguards are supporting new approaches to improve the coordination of urgent and emergency care services and reduce the pressure on A&E.
Urgent treatment centres
Urgent treatment centres will provide fast and efficient care closer to home, improve patient care and reduce unnecessary A&E attendances.
News and blogs
Therapies take a lead
On #AHPsDay, the Programme Manager for the Transformation Team at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust explains how the Therapies team at the hospital’s ‘front door’ is helping reduce avoidable admissions: I have always relished exploring new ideas – or taking things apart to see how they work – and during my NHS career I have […]