Members of the public were asked by NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland to fill in a questionnaire on urgent care during December 2009 and January 2010.
Urgent care is medical treatment that you need quickly, but your condition is not serious or life-threatening. It can be things like bad falls, tummy pains, a child with a worsening fever or cuts, bruises and sprains that need immediate attention.
The aim of the questionnaire was to help shape the future of urgent care, as well as make it easier for people to understand the services available and when to use the right ones. In total there were 3,710 responses to the questionnaire and the results fed into a paper on urgent care which went to February's public board meeting.
NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland will be launching a public consultation on urgent care services and we will keep you informed. A new model of care focused on GPs as the first port of call is being looked at as the trust considers how to provide urgent care services in primary care in the future.
The trust is looking at urgent care centres as part of this and the public will be asked their opinions on three options:
- Keeping everything as it currently is, including the minor injury units
- Just having three urgent care centres
- Having three urgent care centres plus better access to GP services in all localities, including Saturday mornings
View the results of the questionnaire
View the results of the questionnaire for Rutland