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Emergency care guidance documents
Guidance and advice documents for emergency care planners and frontline staff.
4-hour target plans
Documents about financial incentive schemes for A&E, ambulance services and mental health trusts to deliver the 4 hour total time target.
- Download letter from John Bacon, 23 January 2004 (PDF, 39K)
- Download template for local planning (DOC, 42K)
- Download guidance about the template (PDF, 129K)
- Download core analysis tool (to help trusts carry out the required analysis) (XLS, 712K)
- Download Clinical exceptions to the four hour emergency care target (PDF, 64K)
Fund guidance
Modern Matrons' A&E Patient Experience Fund: guidance on allocations and use
A&E patients RLA numbers
Guidelines for GPs with special interests in clinical specialities including emergency care
Published by DH to help develop secondary care services in primary care settings.
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