Providing emergency medical care (New Eurohealth issue)

Providing timely emergency medical services for life-threatening situations as well as urgent care appropriate to patients’ clinical needs are the most enduring challenges facing national health care systems, particularly in light of rising numbers of unnecessary emergency department attendances in many countries. The latest issue of Eurohealth (volume 21, issue 4), which has just been published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (in which LSE Health is a partner), tackles this issue.