Gloucestershire's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is reassuring people about changes to the A&E department at Cheltenham hospital.
From Monday 29th July ambulances will stop taking the most seriously ill patients to Cheltenham between 8pm-8am and will take them to Gloucestershire's Royal instead.
It comes as the Trust struggles to recruit enough doctors and they say the decision is the best use of staff and the safest option for patients.
Emergency Medicine Consultant, Dr Tom Llewellyn says: ''Our priority is to ensure that the sickest patients are seen by very skilled specialist staff when they need to be. The proposals for change were developed for service quality and safety related reasons, which includes the availability of experienced emergency medicine doctors. The proposals were subject to rigorous scrutiny and review by both the National Clinical Advisory Team (NCAT) and the County's Health and Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee, who understand and appreciate that the present arrangements for Emergency Care are unsustainable.''
The Trust have put together a question and answer webpage for people to find out more.
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