The new 111 non-emergency telephone advice line is expected to replace NHS Direct in dealing with non-emergency calls in June.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland introduced a single non-emergency number in 2005 - 0845 600 8000.
When Indira Gandhi briefly imposed dictatorship on India, the so-called emergency in 1975-77, her government coerced people into having fewer children.
David Phelps struck out a career-high nine in four innings after relieving the injured Ivan Nova for New York and Chris Stewart threw out two baserunners as an emergency fill-in for Francisco Cervelli.
Passengers who are physicians provided help in nearly half of the cases, nurses helped in 20%, and emergency-medical technicians in 4%.
The data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre revealed that private providers treated 345, 200 non-emergency NHS patients in 2011-12, a 32, 900 rise on the previous year.
It is simply irresponsible for President Clinton in a non- emergency situation and in the face of the expressed opposition of Congress to implicate the United States in such a "peace enforcement" mission -- the predictable effect of his decision to begin the immediate deployment of small numbers of American service personnel to Bosnia.
Add diagnostic error in the emergency room and walk-in clinics to error in the out-patient offices of medicine and you have more than 200 million errors.
Despite this, education is not currently recognized as a humanitarian priority, and is under-financed in emergency and post-conflict situations.
The debris also struck the assisted-living facility and an emergency-services building where 25 emergency-services volunteers were in class, according to one of the trainees present.
In another development, foreign ministers of the Islamic Co-operation Organisation (OIC) have called for Syria to be suspended from the 57-nation bloc at an emergency two-day summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which starts on Tuesday.
This is where at least some of the current pressures are coming from, with people spending 24-36 hours - and in some cases up to three days - stuck in emergency wards because they can't be transferred elsewhere in a hospital.
Fears about battery safety emerged after a lithium-ion battery in a 787 operated by All Nippon Airways overheated, forcing an emergency landing in western Japan in mid-January and a worldwide grounding of the Dreamliner fleet.
"We will respond immediately if anyone is in need of urgent medical attention - but in a non-emergency situation, then we will make a risk assessment and discuss the outcomes with the ambulance service or any other agency who has requested our help, " Mr Kernohan told the BBC.
South Western Ambulance will continue to run 999 and other non-emergency ambulances in the three counties.
St Helens and Knowsley Health Authority has the highest rate of emergency re-admission in the country.
"We don't have time to stop and write a ticket, " said Chancy Smith, emergency-management director in Dickinson County, Kan.
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The other two exceptions related to care -- emergency care in the hospital and being able to report crimes.
The reviews will look at the central bank's emergency-lending operations in 2008-09, its inflation-forecasting record and the system for providing money to banks.
Unicef's emergency co-ordinator in Bangui, Robert McCarthy, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that all armed groups should ensure that children were protected.
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The new 101 non-emergency number in Scotland is designed to simplify the way the public contact the police, while reducing pressure on the 999 system.
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But it is up for question whether rescheduling hydrocodone will deter doctors from prescribing, or make it very difficult for patients to obtain it, said Dr. Stephen Anderson, an emergency-room physician in Auburn, Washington.
Smart phone applications such as Emergency Aid or In Case of Emergency (ICE) for the iPhone provide one-touch emergency contacts and first aid information in the event of an incident.
The mandate barring American hospitals from denying treatment to anyone who lands in emergency--the root of the supposed freeloader problem--certainly imposes a heavy burden on some hospitals, especially in inner cities.
Emergency cases would be taken to Gloucester while specialist nurses - capable of treating the majority of walk-in patients - would staff an Emergency Care Centre at Cheltenham.
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In the three months from June, RNLI crews attended 496 emergency calls - down from 559 in 2011.
On Tuesday, Tepco requested 10 GE truck-mounted gas turbines, which can provide temporary power, for use in the emergency-response effort.
And in Santiago, Chile, short-term emergency action was taken in the 90s when there were extraordinary bursts of smog, says Nigel Bell, professor of environmental pollution at Imperial College London.
Under increased pressure, Musharraf lifted the emergency order in mid-December and set elections for January.
He described the ICD defibrillator as a "self-contained emergency room in the chest" that monitors the heartbeat.
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