• Emma Saddington, Fatima Rahman, Josh Stuart, Jessica Hocking, Carly Talarico, SmitDe VilliersVEmergency and Trauma Centre, Alfred Health Emergency Service, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia., Peter A Cameron, and Biswadev Mitra.
• Emergency and Trauma Centre, Alfred Health Emergency Service, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Emerg Med Australas. 2023 Dec 1; 35 (6): 104410461044-1046.

ObjectiveTo report the initial experience of a newly built Priority Primary Care Centre (PPCC) from the ED perspective.MethodsA single-centre prospective cohort study, assessing referrals to the PPCC from 1 February to 30 June 2023.ResultsThere were 1240 patients referred to the PPCC from the ED, of which 87 (7.0%) were referred back to the ED. The incidence rate of PPCC referrals was 4.2% (95% confidence interval 4.0-4.5).ConclusionsThe PPCC enabled re-direction of a small proportion of ED presentations. Early results suggest that such patients can be adequately selected and managed at PPCCs.© 2023 The Authors. Emergency Medicine Australasia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

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