Extended opening hours for Minor Injury Unit at Ely
One of the Minor Injury Units run by staff from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has extended its opening times to help ease the pressures currently being experienced by local A&E departments.
The Minor Injury Unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely, will now be open from 8.30am until 8pm - up to and including Sunday, 12 January.
Holly Sutherland, Chief Operating Officer at CPFT, said: “With the pressures currently being experienced at local acute hospitals, it is the right thing to do extend the opening hours of one of our Minor Injury Units so people can get the treatment they need.
“Our dedicated staff can help with all kinds of injuries and illnesses and provide care to patients, so they don’t have to make an unnecessarily trip to their an A&E department.
“We will continue to work with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System and all of our partners in the local health system to provide any support that we can.”
CPFT runs two other Minor Injury Units at Doddington Hospital and North Cambs Hospital Wisbech.
Doddington MIU is open 8.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5pm at weekends and Wisbech MIU is open from 8.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. It is closed at weekends.
Conditions that can be treated at a Minor Injury Unit include:
- Wounds – cuts and bruises
- Bites
- Minor burns and scalds
- Muscle and joint injuries – strains, sprains, limb fractures
- Sports injuries
- Minor illness - for example, earache, sore throat
- Eye problems
- Urine infections (female only, aged 16-64 years)
- Minor head injuries (with no loss of consciousness)
There are more details about the Minor Injury Units here or on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System website which also gives details about the Urgent Treatment Centre in Peterborough.
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For more information contact communications@cpft.nhs.uk.
