After you had been picked up by the ambulance you would have been taken to the Accident and Emergency Department in your hospital. This is called A & E for short.

Accident and emergency is place where very skilled doctors and nurses work. Their job is to keep you alive and stabilise you after your accident so that you can start to get better. During this time, the doctors look at how serious your head or brain injury is and decide what to do.

If your brain injury was not so serious, they would have sent you to the children’s ward to be watched overnight. If your head injury was very serious, they would have got you ready to be sent to intensive care.