Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Kings College Hospital Denmark Hill Guys and St. Thomas Hospital (St. Thomas Site) The Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) units are led by specialist acute medicine and acute surgical consultants
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Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) King’s College Hospital Denmark Hill & Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital (St. Thomas’ Site)<br>
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The Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) units are led by specialist acute medicine and acute surgical consultants & registrars and provide rapid assessment, diagnostics and treatment for acute conditions.
For your patient, this will mean efficient access to the right care in the right place, first time and significantly reduce the likelihood of requiring admission to a hospital bed.
General practice colleagues in Lambeth and Southwark can discuss and refer patients who need same day emergency care (SDEC) with the ambulatory care teams at both Kings College Hospital Denmark Hill and St. Thomas’ Hospital.
Rapid diagnostics are available to the units and will allow same day assessment and treatment to the patients and reduce the likelihood of admission to the hospital.
These units are open to referrals only and not available as direct patient walk-in services*, all patients must be referred to the right SDEC service via the Consultant Connect app or the contact phone number if Consultant Connect is not available (see specific site info below for contact routes).
For services via Consultant Connect, please refer to their service directory and enter your practices’ unique practice CC phone number. (Service Directory | Consultant Connect). You can download the Consultant Connect app at: www.consultantconnect.org.uk, which makes access to services faster.
More information on SDECs can be found here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/urgent-emergency-care/same-day-emergency-care/
For any questions on referring to SDEC in Lambeth & Southwark please contact: avril.satchwell@selondonics.nhs.uk What is SDEC and How to Refer<br>
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Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 9RS<br>
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Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital (St. Thomas’ Site), SE1 7EH<br>
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Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital (St. Thomas’ Site), SE1 7EH<br>
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Common Medical SDEC Eligibility Criteria These clinics are for acute patients who need same day / next day emergency secondary assessment in the acute setting.
A referrer can discuss an ambulant patient, with an acute abnormality or undifferentiated diagnosis, with the appropriate SDEC service for clinical advice and/or referral. (It should not be used to bypass established clinical pathways including 2 week waits, or referrals to other specialties).
Some common SDEC conditions include but are not limited to the following:
Acute Medicine (acute undifferentiated diagnosis)
Chest pain (suspected acute coronary syndrome, pulmonary embolism, atraumatic pneumothorax)
Shortness of breath (suspected PE, pneumonia, congestive cardiac failure, acute COPD/asthma exacerbation)
Palpitations (acute or decompensated AF/arrhythmia)
Acute headache (e.g. – thunderclap headache, suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage)
Pyelonephritis
Lower limb cellulitis (requiring iv antibiotics)
Lower limb deep vein thrombosis
Uncontrolled diabetes (acute hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia)
Suspected malignant hypertension
Acute blood test result abnormality
Abdominal pain, abscess or post-op complications (refer to Acute Surgical SDEC)<br>
