emergency services action team

emergency services action team

A team, established in 1996 in the UK, tasked with improving the handling of winter pressures on the Department of Health, and with developing an approach based on an understanding of the wider medium-term factors shaping emergency care.
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EMERGENCY SERVICES ACTION TEAM (ESAT) ESAT works with health and social care organisations across Cheshire and Merseyside to ensure people who need emergency care get it.
WINTER CRISIS: CAN WE COPE? The coldest winter in 10 years, beds shortage, vaccine drought . . . and no cash: Helen Hunt reports on the task facing the NHS
In North Merseyside, the Emergency Services Action Team, ESAT, has set up a pioneering scheme to help ensure patients receive the right treatment in the right place.
NHS acts to ease winter pressures
Mr Chris Bunch, chairman of the NHS Emergency Services Action Team, warned of "continuing concerns" about the capacity of the NHS to respond to a severe winter this year.
Balance books and waiting lists, NHS told
THE emergency services action team (Esat) is ready to respond to crisis situations all year round,but is particularly needed over the winter.
Action team is on standby
The North Merseyside Emergency Services Action Team, which coordinates emergency service resources in Merseyside during the winter period, said people must only call 999 if it is a genuine emergency.
999 calls warning as A&E hits crisis point; Ambulances queued outside hospital for two hours
MANAGING this winter's bed crisis will be largely down to the Emergency Services Action Team.
Crisis team is on alert
Jean Scott, from the North Mersey Emergency Services Action Team (ESAT), said: "We were seeing slight pressure at Aintree due mainly to respiratory diseases but that has now eased.
Hospitals cope with cold spell pressure
North Merseyside Emergency Services Action Team spokeswoman Jean Scott said: "The patients caught in the back-log at Aintree were all emergency cases, but we do find that there are people using emergency services when there are other options.
Plea to patients after crisis in A&E
Gareth Jones, head of the North Merseyside emergency services action team, set up to monitor hospital capacity, GP services and social services over the winter, said: "We did pay for some private operations last year but it is happening to a much greater extent this winter because of the very tight in-patient waiting list targets hospitals have to meet.
500 NHS patients to get private treatment
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