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Introduction Emergency department (ED) activity in the UK has steadily increased, with a 12% increase in attendances and 31% increase in downstream admissions between 2011/2012 and 2019/2020.1 Despite this, overall inpatient bed capacity has reduced.2 This was recognised in the National Health Service (NHS) Long-Term Plan (2019), which outlined an aim to reduce pressure on emergency hospital services.3 Ambulatory emergency care services were proposed as one of multiple measures to achieve this aim. Presentations with suspected cardiac pathology contribute to a significant proportion of unplanned attendances to secondary care.4–6 Of these, s