Embrace

Embrace is a highly specialist, round-the-clock transport service for critically ill infants and children in Yorkshire and the Humber who require care in another hospital in the region or further afield.

If you need to make an urgent referral to Embrace, or need further specialist advice, please ring the referral hotline on 0114 305 8200. Further useful information is available to you through the menus on this website.

The acute call medical control form gives you a clear understanding of the structure of the referral process and the information you will be asked by the Embrace team.

For planned transfers, please use the Refer to us section.

Each year our specialist teams of nurses, advanced nurse practitioners, doctors and drivers transfer more than 2,000 infants and children by road ambulances, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft.

We’re based just off the M1 at Junction 37 for easy access to the roads and have specialist teams working from there who mobilise quickly to get to our patients fast.

Our call handling team uses a state of the art call conferencing system allowing Embrace clinicians to provide clinical advice, liaise with other clinical specialists, co-ordinate transfers and find out where available beds are throughout the country.

Embrace is the only critical care transport team in the UK to be fully accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS-global). CAMTS-global is a US-based organisation dedicated to improving the quality of patient care and safety of the transport environment.

Guidelines and other documents

We have a series of clinical guidelines which have been written to support clinical teams accessing Embrace. These are a synthesis of best practice used both nationally and in the region. The overall responsibility for the decisions taken in regard to the individual patient concerned remains that of the referring healthcare professionals.

• View the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Operational Delivery Network guidelines and formulary
• View the Yorkshire and Humber Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network policies and clinical guidelines
• View the Yorkshire and Humber Congenital Heart Disease Operational Delivery Network guidelines and protocols
• View the Yorkshire and Humber Surge plan and Exception reports

Other Embrace documents including hospital directions, forms and reports are also available to download below.

Booking an emergency ambulance for non-Embrace transfers

The transferring team call their local ambulance service and request an “Emergency Interfacility Transfer for a child”

• Yorkshire Ambulance Service – 0330 678 4159
• East Midlands Ambulance Service – 0115 967 5097