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Utilise your Minor Injury Units this winter

Minor Injuries Team from Bromsgrove

Utilise your Minor Injury Units this winter

Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is reminding residents to utilise the local Minor Injury Units (MIU) this winter.

The Trust are encouraging anyone with a minor injury to attend an MIU rather than visiting accident and emergency, which should only be used in urgent and life threatening situations.

The units can treatment a range of minor injuries including cuts and grazes, sprains, strains, fractures and minor burns.

Located in Bromsgrove, Malvern, Evesham, Tenbury and Kidderminster, the county’s minor injury units are open every day, including the festive bank holidays, and many patients are seen in less than an hour.

Dawn Shaw, Minor Injuries Team Lead for Bromsgrove, said: “The staff at our Minor Injury Units are trained nurses who have knowledge and skills to deal with a range of minor injuries. Often people wait hours in A&E with a minor injury which could have been treated at one of our Minor Injury Unit’s and with pressure on emergency departments greater this time of year, we are urging people to really think about what the most appropriate options are.”

The Trust delivers four of the counties minor injuries units with the additional of the 24hour unit in Kidderminster which is provided by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust.

Dr Jules Walton, Divisional Medical Director for Urgent Care at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “The county’s five Minor Injuries Units offer patients convenient, timely, expert medical advice on a wide range of injuries and mean that our A&E colleagues can really focus on treating patients with urgent, life threatening issues. In our hospitals we are working hard on our HomeFirst Worcestershire plan which is prioritising how we can ease pressures on our busy A&E departments. Using Minor Injuries Units and other available healthcare services appropriately is a positive way that our local residents can support us with this.”

In addition, for minor illnesses residents should visit their local pharmacy. As qualified healthcare professionals, Pharmacists can offer clinical advice and over-the-counter medicines for a range of minor illnesses, such as coughs, colds, aches and pains, tummy trouble and ear ache.

Many pharmacies offer extended opening hours in the evenings and at weekends. Some are open until midnight or even later, even on public holidays.

For urgent but non-life-threatening illnesses, the public can contact their GP (including an out of hours redirect services) or NHS 111 (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week).

MIU opening hours:

Malvern: 9am-9pm, 7 days-a-week

Evesham: 9am to 9pm 7-days-a-week

Tenbury: 9am to 5pm, 7 days-a-week

Bromsgrove: Mon-Fri: 8am-8pm, Sat-Sun: 12pm-8pm
(Last appointment 30 minutes before closing time)

Kidderminster: 24 hours-a-day, 7 days a week

Please visit www.hacw.nhs.uk/MIU for more information.

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