Category 1 – Ring 999/attend A&E

• Chest pain
• Breathlessness – difficulty speaking
• Collapse
• Unconscious/unresponsive
• Sudden onset limb weakness
• Sudden onset difficulty speaking
• Fall – unable to get up
• Fitting
• Heavy bleeding
• Palpitations – persistent
• Overdose
• Accidental poisoning
• Very severe pain
• Significant trauma
• Severe allergic reaction
• Floppy infant
• Sudden onset confusion
• Head injury with vomiting, loss of
  consciousness, fitting or visual disturbance
• Low blood sugar

Category 2 – Emergency appointment/telephone call

• Diarrhoea and vomiting in infant >24 hours
• Pain/bleeding in pregnancy
• Visual disturbance
• Suicidal
• Hallucinations
• Unable to urinate
• Moderately severe pain
• Moderate breathlessness
• Moderate bleeding
• Simple head injury in infant
• Unwell child with rash