If you have fallen over, or injured yourself in any way it may be more appropriate for you to go straight to one of the local Minor Injury Units, or Accident and Emergency Departments as listed below.

Minor Injuries Units can help with the following: 

• Acute limb injuries including fractures
• Wounds, sprains and strains (excluding potential hip or thigh fractures)
• Minor head injuries including wounds to head and face (excluding children under 1year and those with associated neck injury, loss of consciousness or any vomiting).
• Wounds caused by trauma
• Foreign bodies in eyes, ear or nose
• Rib injuries
• Minor back injuries (excluding chronic conditions or major trauma)
• Insect and animal bites and stings
• Burns and scalds
• Removal of splinters
• Suturing (stitch up) wounds (excluding eyes, nose and lips).

Conditions NOT appropriate to be treated in a Minor Injuries Unit

• Chest pain
• Long-term joint or back pain (the majority of injuries over 2 weeks old are not appropriate for MIU)
• Sore throats, earaches, chest infections and urinary tract infections
• Rashes
• Sexual health problems
• Abdominal pain
• Post-operative problems
• Re-dressings including leg ulcer dressings
• Abscesses.

Further information surrounding a head injury can be found here, for information on cuts and grazes please click here.