In August the first phase of the Trust’s Emergency Village will open with the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit.
The new facility will bring together multi-disciplinary teams from both medical and surgical disciplines and will have a significant positive impact on reducing unnecessary emergency admissions to the hospital.
In this video, Dr Adeline Israel, Clinical lead on the Emergency Village and ED Consultant at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals explains the principles behind Same Day Emergency Care and why it is so important to the hospital and patients.
In this additional video from NHS England you can find out how Same Day Emergency Care is changing the face of patient care at Trusts across the country.