University Hospitals Plymouth plans for new Urgent Treatment Centre
University Hospitals Plymouth is pleased to announce plans to build a new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) and Fracture Clinic.
The new UTC will be in addition to the Cumberland Centre located in Devonport, Plymouth and the Tavistock and Kingsbridge Minor Injury Units and will help to reduce footfall and take the pressure off the main Derriford Emergency Department, improving the care delivered to patients.
Dr Anne Hicks, Consultant in Emergency Medicine said: “This is a positive step for the people of Plymouth. Access to an Urgent Treatment Centre away from the main Emergency Department, in a purpose-built unit where we can see all ages with minor illness and injury will impact our care delivered to patients positively. This will build on the success of the service we provide at the Cumberland centre.”
An Urgent Treatment Centre should be visited when you have an injury which is not life-threatening, but still requires urgent treatment. Examples of problems that can be treated are cuts, small burns or scalds, bites and stings, sprains and certain fractures, minor head injuries, infected wounds and foreign bodies in eyes.
The building will accommodate the Urgent Treatment Centre and Fracture Clinic along with support offices and improved staff facilities. It will be located in the Northwest quadrant of the hospital site, opposite Costa Coffee and the planned new Boots Outpatients Pharmacy.
Having an Urgent Treatment Centre on site will allow us to treat patients who require urgent treatment that is not life threatening more quickly. This will further allow the development of the new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre (UEC), a purpose-built facility creating space to care for the sickest patients which will be located to the left of the main hospital entrance. Enabling work has begun on the UEC which will prepare the site for main construction activity.
