In an Emergency

The Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has emergency medical care at both the Maidstone Hospital and the new Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. These services are open 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.

The Emergency Care Centre at Maidstone Hospital

The Emergency Care Centre at Maidstone Hospital provides a wide range of general and specialist services for patients. Patients will be seen and treated as normal in the Emergency Care Centre in an emergency, with the exception of major trauma care and children who require inpatient care, which will be provided in the trauma unit at Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

The A&E at Maidstone Hospital sees approximately 60,000 patients every year and aim to see and treat every patient within four hours of arrival.

Tunbridge Wells A&E and Trauma Unit

The A&E department forms one of the core parts of the Tunbridge Wells Hospital. There has been a significant investment in new equipment throughout the department. During the course of a year, nearly 50,000 people will be treated in the department - the vast majority of whom will be seen and treated within four hours.

It's a much larger department than that at Kent & Sussex offering considerably more room to work in for the staff and greater privacy for patients - thanks largely to the cubicles having solid partitions between them rather than curtains.

There are four distinct areas in A&E - minor injuries - with a dedicated area for children - majors, where more serious cases are treated, resuscitation which looks after people who need reviving and a seven bedded clinical decision unit where people can be observed for up to 23 hours at a time.

At Tunbridge Wells hospital we have a trauma unit which provides patients throughout West Kent and East Sussex with higher standards of emergency care.

People living in, or travelling though, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, Crowborough and surrounding towns and villages can now have (from 22 September 2011) emergency surgery following major injury accidents in the new trauma unit at Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

The purpose-built unit has also been given enhanced status as part of a new countrywide critical care network.

With bigger teams, more specialists and dedicated trauma theatres, surgeons will be able to perform the majority of trauma operations on scheduled trauma lists running for up to 10 hours a day seven days a week and with life or limb saving operations performed day and night. The unit also has access to its own x-ray and CT scanner.

For more information about our new Trauma Unit and our centre's of expertise please download our brochure >>

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