Medical SDEC
Date issued: August 2024
Review date: August 2026
PDF: Medical SDEC.pdf[pdf] 71KB
Following your review in the Emergency Department today you need further assessment to investigate your condition, but you are not required to stay in hospital. This is called a suspended admission. You need to be easy to contact, be able to attend the hospital for follow up and be mobile with limited assistance.
What happens next?
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You will be contacted by a memberof the Medical SDEC(AAU) team from 8am the next working day to arrange an appointment time. This is likely to be on the same day.
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If you do not receive a phone call by 11am the next working day please ring 01752 435614.
Please note that that your visit to the Medical SDEC Unit is designed to provide rapid investigation treatment of your condition without the need to be admitted to hospital. Due to the nature of this service, we cannot always give an exact time for your appointment, and we arrange these in order of clinical need. You should anticipate that your attendance at the unit will take between 1 and 6 hours, although we will try and make this as short as possible.
You can expect that you will be seen by a clinician who will discuss your condition, arrange appropriate investigations for you and explain any treatment plans that are to be implemented.
It is expected that you will arrange transport to and from the unit, if you have difficulties with transport, please contact the unit on the number above who can advise you on alternative transport arrangements.
