Emergency services
When it comes to your health or the health of someone in your family, it is often very obvious if the person is seriously ill and needs immediate emergency care. An emergency is a critical or life-threatening situation.
To help you decide what an emergency situation is, here are some examples:
- Unconsciousness
- A suspected stroke
- Heavy blood loss
- Suspected broken bones
- A deep wound such as a stab wound
- A suspected heart attack
- Difficulty in breathing
- Severe burns
- A severe allergic reaction
The way to help a person very often depends on what is wrong with them. Accident and emergency departments attend to patients in times of severe illness or following an accident.
Accident and Emergency departments in Liverpool include:
The Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Prescot Street
Liverpool
L7 8XP
0151 706 2000
University Hospital Aintree
Lower Lane
Liverpool
L9 7AL
0151 525 5980
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Eaton Road
West Derby
Liverpool
L12 2AP
0151 228 4811
To search for a local hospital, use the box on the right of this page.
Ambulances
North West Ambulance Service provides an emergency service 24 hours a day. Ambulance staff offer care at the scene of the incident and can transport patients to appropriate health care services.
In the following circumstances you should not attempt to move the patient and call an ambulance by dialing 999:
- You think the person may have hurt their back or neck, or have any other injury that may be made worse by moving them
- The person is in shock and needs your constant attention
- The person has severe chest pain or difficulty breathing
The NHS Choices website provides further information about what to do in an emergency situation.
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