Emergency Medical Service (LPS)
The Emergency Medical Service (LPS) is provided during specific consultation hours (shown on the right), to which it is also restricted. These consultation hours are intended to deal with acute medical problems outside the normal opening hours of physicians.
The EMS is not intended for:
- routine examinations and procedures that can be carried out during the outpatient clinic’s normal opening hours
- prescribing long-term medication
- issuing certificates of temporary incapacity for work
- dealing with long-term or non-acute health problems
- examinations of self-paying patients or those with private health insurance, unless the condition is acute
- arranging home visits or transport for patients attending examinations
Institutional Emergency Service (ÚPS) Outpatient clinic
The outpatient clinic providing the Institutional Emergency Service (ÚPS) delivers urgent medical care to patients in a life-threatening emergency outside normal working hours and is available 24 hours a day. They are primarily intended for patients experiencing a sudden and serious deterioration in their health, severe pain or shortness of breath, as well as for patients brought in by the emergency medical service, etc.