The public are being asked to share their views on the proposed relocation of the Urgent Treatment Centre from City Care Centre to Peterborough City Hospital.
A new consultation exercise on the project has been launched today (Wednesday) by Cambridgeshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
The existing Urgent Treatment Centre sees people with a range of urgent, but not life-threatening, illnesses and injuries such as sprains, minor burns and scalds, sports injuries, minor head injuries and more. These are the types of illnesses and injuries that if left untreated may become more severe quite quickly.
The proposals would see the relatively new Urgent Treatment Centre moving from its current site at the City Care Centre on Thorpe Road in Peterborough to Peterborough City Hospital at Bretton Gate on the outskirts.
This would mean patients having to travel out of the city for walk-in treatment at the hospital site rather than having the accessibility of being able to easily walk or catch public transport into the city centre to visit the existing UTC, which had been designed to be centrally accessible.
There have also been concerns about the availability of parking on the city hospital site.
Dr Vaz Ahmed, Emergency Medicine Consultant and clinical lead of emergency and urgent care for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough STP, explains: “Moving these services to one location would create a fully integrated urgent and emergency service. Creating a single front door for all urgent and emergency services, which would mean people would only have to travel to one location for their urgent and emergency health needs, rather than trying to work out which service is the right one for them.When we spoke to our local community during the BIG conversation last year, 73 per cent of people said they would like just one place to contact for advice and treatment that could book y ou an urgent appointment with the right service within two days, or sooner if needed. By bringing together the Urgent Treatment Centre and the Emergency Department at Peterborough City Hospital we can create a seamless service for people with urgent or emergency health needs.”
The consultation is being led by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the organisation responsible for buying NHS services in the local area, and will run from Wednesday 5 August until Wednesday 30 September.
Article originally appeared on Peterborough Telegraph
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