[Closed] A + E or not?

any local walk in non-emergency centres?

Minor injuries units, walk-in centres and urgent care centres

If your injury is not serious, go to a minor injuries unit (MIU), walk-in centre or urgent care centre rather than an A&E department. You could be seen more quickly than in A&E, and it allows staff in A&E to concentrate on people with serious and life-threatening conditions.

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If it isn't an emergency then do not go to A&E. Is there a Minor Injuries Unit?

Minor injuries/hobble-in centre.

There are supposed to be walk-in centres (or hobble-in) for this kind of thing, but in our case it's the same place as our large efficient A&E dept. They prioritise, so you with your dressing change/check will not take any time away from proper emergencies.

There are some walk-in centres that are not in A&E though, look up your local one.

Would have gone to the minor injuries unit but the 2 closest hospitals only seem to have an A+E 😕

Then they probably do both. No point in setting up a separate MIU when you already have an A&E with all the facilities. MIU are for places without big hospital coverage, I'd imagine.

Why not call them?

Got to be some great gangrene pics on the net somewhere!

Minor injuries as above. I had an off a couple of weeks ago and made a good old mess of my knee but it wasn't A&E bad so I went to the MI place and they patched me up in around 2.5hrs which is much faster than A&E would have been given that I would have been low priority. And they gave me loads of dressings and antibiotics as I was off to Italy for work the next day.

If there is not a minor injuries unit in your area then these services are also provided by A&E departments.

fairy muff...

It isn't uncommun for MIU to be attached to A&E - you will be triaged on arrival. But check first that there is an MIU else I'd be back to the GP asking for an appointment that day as they will have slots for such occurrences (need to be seen that day but not an emergency)

Yeah seems the MIU is attached, thanks for the advice. Have managed to get a cancellation at the GP today so dont need to go to the hospital now. Well i hope i dont need to go to the hospital 😀

I wouldn't go to A&E. Marlo and his boys will definitely have eyeball on it yo...

I didn't go to MIU for this.

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But that was two days ago and it's much better now after 48 hours of Tegaderm dressings. Not going to the only minor injuries in the city to get a dressing changed. Things to do etc and couldn't get to the doctors.

Not the first off, won't be the last. Stitches, hospital, otherwise, homecare.

Sorry that pic was huge and gory. Will re-up if you want.

See here http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fell-off-skin-gone-recovery-tips

If it isn't an emergency then do not go to A&E. Is there a Minor Injuries Unit?

A lot of hospitals it's the same place and they just triage you and send you to the right department.

Call your doctor at 8 am tomorrow morning.
Make an emergency appointment.

Get some dressings and change them yourself?

Get some dressings and change them yourself?

if it doesn't need a stitch then just clean it up and put some clean dressings on it. That's all the professionals do.

Does your gp practice have a nurse practitioner? appointment with them rather than doc might be a way of getting this done. I'd recommend having a professional assess/clean/dress it, to avoid rubbish healing, infection etc.