The Emergency Department is the front door of GV Health and effectively acts as the provider of last resort for health and welfare services. This is a role that increases in significance outside normal working hours when most other services have closed their doors or have limited availability. The staff must manage all comers in a department effectively set up to deal with the small number of true emergencies that require instant response.
The medical stream includes care of people with heart conditions, lung problems, diabetes, kidney failure, cancer andother illnesses where the specific treatment is not an operation.