More treatment rooms for emergency patients

SIX additional treatment cubicles have been opened today to treat and care for patients in the Emergency Department at Pilgrim Hospital, Boston.

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The cubicles are part of the new rapid assessment, intervention and treatment area designed to care for patients needing urgent care and assessment. They are located close to the ambulance entrance to ensure patients get the urgent care they need as soon as possible. These patients will then be seen by clinicians, assessed and any tests carried out to decide their ongoing care.

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group Chief Executive, Professor Karen Dunderdale, said: "Today marks another significant milestone in the provision of urgent and emergency care at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston. These cubicles will enable us to assess and stabilise some of our sickest patients and identify the onward care they need.

"These might only be six cubicles, but the difference they will make for our patients and the staff caring for them should not be underestimated, especially as we come into the winter months."