Same Day Emergency Care Service is Expanding
Building on the success of the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service, which treats and discharges around 40-45 patients needing emergency care every day, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is expanding the service.
This will allow space for an additional 75 people to be treated each week and improve ‘flow’ throughout the hospital.
Becki Greenwood, Service Line Manager for Acute Medicine at University Hospitals Plymouth, said: “We have recognised that we are seeing patients within the current SDEC unit that could be seen and treated in a different environment.
“Patients will be seen sooner by both nursing and medical teams, reducing the length of time before they get home.
“By utilising this new space, we are creating more capacity in our SDEC services for patients from the Emergency Department and community teams including South West Ambulance Service Trust.”
We also recently shared our future plans for a new Urgent Treatment Centre and Fracture Clinic on the Derriford Hospital site, and enabling works are also underway for a new Urgent and Emergency Care Facility.
Opening hours for the Same Day Emergency Care unit are 8am until 8pm, Monday to Friday.
