{"id":9128,"date":"2019-02-07T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T11:20:48","slug":"ambulatory-care-acu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/practice-news\/ambulatory-care-acu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulatory Care (ACU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the recent pilot project at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust the Ambulatory Care Unit (ACU) has listened to feedback from Practices and implemented a number of changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ACU offers same-day emergency medical care for patients, to help manage a number of conditions which can be treated safely, often without requiring overnight stay in hospital \u2013 although it is not always possible for a patient to be discharged on the same day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ACU has the same access to clinical expertise and diagnostics as A&amp;E but with this new access pathway, the patient does not need to spend any time in A&amp;E.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/local-services\/ambulatory-care-unit-acu\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/local-services\/ambulatory-care-unit-acu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549622136804000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEtZzZ0shvxlKpNzyH0qJnyjZKeKQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent pilot project at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust the Ambulatory Care Unit (ACU) has listened to feedback from Practices and implemented a number of changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":3222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9129,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions\/9129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}