Time is running out to have your say on proposals to merge two services at Rutland Memorial Hospital, the Urgent Care and Minor Injuries.
The LLR ICB says this would create a seven day a week, eight hours a day service there, although X-rays will only be available for two days a week for now. The team are at Empingham Medical Centre today between 11 and one for further engagement.
The online consultation closes this Sunday. Dr James Burden works at the Uppingham Surgery and is the clinical lead for the Integrated Care Board in Rutland. He tells us more about the proposed changes at the hospital in Oakham.
"So in the morning, there's a minor injuries service for suspected fractures or sprains or minor injuries. And then in the evening, it becomes much more of an acute urgent care centre with a clinician who is a qualified clinician with access to your medical notes with supervision normally remotely by a qualified doctor off site and the service that we're aiming to go to would be much more of a blended service where patients will hopefully be streamed and booked in by either 111 or their GP practice between the hours of one o'clock in the afternoon and nine o'clock in the evening and those hours will be consistent for every single day of the week."
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