Welcome to the Emergency Department
Award-winning emergency care
One of the busiest departments in the hospital, the Emergency Department (ED) is known as the hospital’s ‘front door’.
Three sites, 240,000 cases each year, the region's only helipad, and modern facilities - find out what makes our emergency care award-winning.
Latest news from our Emergency Departments
New A&E entrance for Queen's Hospital Burton
The waiting room is a new grey building attached to the main A&E, and the patient entrance door is located after the rainbow canopy, clearly signposted as 'A&E Entrance'....
Life saving tests being offered at UHDB
A new blood testing initiative across University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB)'s Emergency Departments is helping patients receive faster diagnosis and access to life-altering treatment. ...
Adult Emergency Department and other services moving at Royal Derby Hospital
The patient entrance for the Adult Emergency Department at Royal Derby Hospital is moving, alongside other service relocations happening at the hospital, to expand the space we have to care for emerge...