Key emergency care documents
Department of Health (England)
- Freedom to Practise: Dispelling the Myths
- Reforming Emergency Care
- Transforming Emergency Care in England. A report by Professor Sir George Alberti
- Direction of Travel for Urgent Care (PDF, 438kb)
- Direction of Travel for Urgent Care: discussion document and key areas highlighted
- DH Winter Report 2006/07
- DH Winter Report 2005/06
- Improving emergency. care in England. Sixteenth Report of. Session 2004–05. Report, together with formal minutes. Oral and written evidence (PDF, 872kb)
- Right Skill, Right Time, Right Place. Emergency care Practitioner Report
- Improving the Patient Experience in Accident and Emergency Departments
- Modern Matrons – Improving the Patient’s Experience in A&E
- Coronary heart disease: national service framework for coronary heart disease - modern standards and service models
National Audit Office
- Facing the Challenge: NHS Emergency Planning in England. Report by the comptroller and auditor general. Hc 36 session 2002-2003: 15 November 2002 (PDF, 1.7mb)
- Improving Emergency Care in England. Report by the comptroller and auditor general hc 1075 Session 2003-2004: 13 October 2004 (PDF, 550 kb)
- National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death
Emergency Admissions – a journey in the right Direction - Trauma: who cares? – Trauma Services Report (PDF, 358kb)
Competencies
- Skills for Health – Emergency, urgent and scheduled care competency framework
- Skills for Health - Mental Health competency framework
Resuscitation
- Decisions relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. A Joint Statement from the British Medical Association, the Resuscitation Council (UK), and the Royal College of Nursing (PDF, 338kb)
- Witnessing Resuscitation. Guidance for nursing staff (PDF, 1.5mb)
- Emergency treatment of anaphylactic reactions. Guidelines for healthcare providers (PDF, 637kb)
Paediatric Care
- RCPCH services for children in emergency care
- Healthcare commission services for children in hospital (PDF, 980kb)
- BAEM (now RCEM) management of pain in children (PDF, 94kb)
Mental Health
- Improving the management of patients with mental ill health in emergency care settings. Department of Health
- Drug misuse and dependence. UK guidelines on clinical management
- Mental capacity act: guidance for health professionals
- Truth Hurts. Report of the National Inquiry into Self-harm among Young People
- Better Services for People who Self-Harm. Quality Standards for Healthcare Professionals. Royal College of Psychiatrists (PDF, 221kb)
- Report on the Inquiry into the Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm (Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety)
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- NICE feverish illness in children and discharge advice leaflet
- NICE head injury guidelines, summary and discharge advice leaflet
- NICE irritable bowel syndrome
- NICE urinary tract infection in children
Blood Transfusion Safety
- Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) annual reports
- Right patient, right blood – new advice for safer blood transfusions. NPSA
- Right blood, right patient, right time
RCN guidance for improving transfusion practice (PDF, 2mb)
National Patient Safety Agency
- National Patient Safety Agency: recognising and responding appropriately to early signs of deterioration in hospitalised patients
- Safety in Doses: Medication safety incidents in the NHS
- Standardising wristbands improves patient safety
- Right patient, right blood – new advice for safer blood transfusions