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  2. Urgent care center - Wikipedia

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    An urgent care center ( UCC ), also known as an urgent treatment centre (UTC) in the United Kingdom, is a type of walk-in clinic focused on the delivery of urgent ambulatory care in a dedicated medical facility outside of a traditional emergency department located within a hospital. Urgent care centers primarily treat injuries or illnesses ...

  3. Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    One of London Ambulance Service's frontline vehicles The London Air Ambulance in action Peugeot Ambulance of the Scottish Ambulance Service. Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly provided free at the point of use by the four National Health Services (NHS) of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern ...

  4. Practice Plus Group - Wikipedia

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    Practice Plus Group was founded as Care UK in 1982 and rebranded in 2020. It is owned by Bridgepoint Group. In November 2023, Practice Plus Group won Laing Buisson's 'Hospital Group of the Year' award. Facilities Private hospitals. Practice Plus Group offers private patient treatment at its hospitals. Its website advertises prices of up to 30% ...

  5. Healthcare in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.

  6. Emergency department - Wikipedia

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    The main patient area inside the Mobile Medical Unit operated in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own ...

  7. HCA Healthcare - Wikipedia

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    HCA Healthcare, Inc. is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owned and operated 186 hospitals and approximately 2,000 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding emergency rooms, urgent care centers and physician clinics in 21 states and the United Kingdom.

  8. St Albans City Hospital - Wikipedia

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    History. The hospital was established by St Albans Board of Guardians as a workhouse in 1838. [2] It became known as the St Albans Public Assistance Institution in 1930, Osterhills Hospital in 1948 and the St Albans City Hospital in the 1950s. [2] Two wards at the hospital closed in February 2017.

  9. Emergency medicine - Wikipedia

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    Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians (often called "ER doctors" in the United States) specialize in providing care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages.