What is a Medical Emergency?

When you become unwell it can affect your whole body regardless of where the original illness started. Sometimes that effect can be life-threatening or could become so if not addressed within 24 hours. This is what we would consider an emergency requiring urgent care and assessment by someone with the right knowledge of your particular health needs at that time and the right skills to be able to help you. Because the human body is such a complex collection of bones, organs, tissues and processes no one team can know and do all of this alone and Ninewells Hospital has a number of teams like ours to help assess and treat you.

It is essential that we direct you to the right place, first time.