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Emergency care for children
Emergency care for children—the next steps
Department of Health, London, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor M W Cooke
Warwick Medical School, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; m.w.cooke@warwick.ac.uk
Accepted 7 August 2006
Recommended steps for improved medical services to children and those needing urgent medical attention
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In a typical year, around 25% of calls to National Health Service (NHS) Direct will be about a child; a pre-school child will see his or her general practitioner about six times; a child of school age will see his or her general practitioner two or three times; approximately 10% of walk-in centre attendances will be children; up to half of infants aged <12 months and one quarter of children over one year old will attend an emergency department (accounting for about one quarter of emergency department attendances); 1 in 11 children will be referred to an outpatients clinic; and 1 in 15 children will be admitted to hospital. Emergency care has undergone massive change in the past few years. Recent emphasis has been on reducing delays for patients, particularly in emergency departments of acute hospitals. At present, the focus is changing to wider issues of
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