Our emergency department (ED) at Leicester Royal Infirmary provides high quality emergency care for adults and children around the clock. Click on the links below to find out more.

ED care: What we do

ED senior doctors: Meet the team

ED clinical areas: Our facilities explained

ED Performance: Clinical Quality Indicators

Website links:

Google Maps UK: LRI Emergency Department

NHS choices website information on 'What is an emergency?'

The ED: One of many options

 Not every new health problem is an emergency. In many cases, there are now good alternatives to visiting an ED.

Sensible use of our service allows us to work more effectively and to concentrate on what we do best: helping patients who are seriously ill or injured (in other words: 'real' emergencies).

More information:

Acute health problems: Your options

Regional Major Trauma Centre

The report below provides a brief summary of the discussions and actions agreed at the Major Trauma Confirm and Challenge event held in April 2010.

The event focused on the business cases of Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), who wish to become the regional Major Trauma Centre and the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) who are key to transporting and caring for major trauma patients.  

Transforming regional trauma services is part of the programme to transform the NHS in the East Midlands over the next 10 years.

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Towards Excellence - find out more about the plans for the NHS in the East Midlands.