... staff and members of the general public. NHS Ambulance Trusts are the local organisations responsible for responding to 999 calls; transporting patients; and increasingly for providing out-of-hours care. Emergency and urgent care is someone who needs emergency or urgent care. Although people can't plan when they have accidents, they need to be sure that, whoever they contact in the NHS is ready and equipped to deal with the accident. NHS direct is a confidental health and advise line that runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The advice they can give you ranges from what to do if a member of the family is ill to local health services such as doctors, dentists and out of hours pharmacies. NHS walk-in centres are a service that you can just walk in without having to have made an appointment that give quick and easy advise to health advise and treatment ...

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