Urgent and Emergency Care

The Emergency Care department at King's Mill Hospital is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for the treatment of serious and potentially life-threatening conditions.

We work closely with partners at East Midlands Ambulance Service and others to provide a variety of appropriate and timely services for patients who require urgent and emergency care.

Our emergency department is very busy

If you need urgent medical help for something that isn't an emergency, our emergency department and urgent treatment centre isn't your only option.

Call 111
Visit an urgent treatment centre or minor injury unit
Speak to your local pharmacy

If you’re unsure which service is right for you please contact 111.

You should only call 999 or visit an emergency department in a real emergency

Only come to our emergency care department or urgent treatment centre if it's for serious, life-threatening conditions that need immediate medical attention, including:

Persistent severe chest pain or breathing difficulty
Loss of consciousness
Acute confused state
Suspected broken bones
Severe blood loss
Serious burns
Suspected stroke
Swallowing something harmful or poisonous, or a drug overdose

Emergency Care department at King’s Mill Hospital

King’s Mill Hospital's Emergency Care department deals with any emergency presentation from critically ill patients to minor injuries.

The emergency department team comprises consultants, registrars, junior doctors, advanced nurse practitioners, emergency nurse practitioners, as well as support and reception staff.

It has separate children’s and young adults’ areas, a seven-bed state-of-the-art resuscitation room, a 19-bay trolley area, and a 10-room minors area.

There is also an Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU) that provides treatment for a wide variety of conditions.

The Short Stay Unit (SSU) is where patients are admitted who require up to 72 hours of care.

It also has a discharge team to assist elderly patients in getting home safely.

For more information about our Emergency Care department at King's Mill Hospital, watch our YouTube video.

Urgent Treatment Centre at Newark Hospital

Newark Hospital has an Urgent Treatment Centre that treats a range of acute conditions. It is open 8am to 10.30pm each day (last patient admitted at 9.30pm).

The Urgent Treatment Centre continues to be an important service offered within the Newark Hospital site. The Hospital has benefited from a considerable expansion of services offered in recent years, including a £5.6m investment in new operating theatres, and we expect this ongoing development to continue to bring in a wider range of services to the people of Newark.