The relevant assets of the NEWS include the possibility to carry out standardised assessment of the patient’s condition, early identification of sudden health deterioration, observation of its time-related changeability and adjustment of the intensity of interventions to the obtained outcome. ...the above scale necessitates the regularity of measurements and provides nurses with the objective basis for informing the physician that some intervention is required, which may help to overcome possible communication barriers. Every fifth request for help was made directly by nurses; in some hospitals, the percentage of calls made by nurses significantly exceeded 50%. ...in some hospitals the number of calls caused by difficulties in care of particularly demanding patients decreased after suitable trainings of the ward staff provided by the RRT regarding care of the central line or tracheostomy insertion sites. According to the expectations based on the experience of other countries, mutual education of the personnel of various wards is a significant added value of the introduction of the system to Polish hospitals 4. In every fifth hospital, the nursing staff is supported by paramedics normally working in hospital emergency departments.