Minor injuries service could continue at Grantham Hospital

A meeting of health officials has been recommended to continue the minor injuries service at Grantham Hospital.

A meeting of the South West Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group will decide on the unit's future after it was put in doubt recently because of a lack of use.

Patients and the public are invited to the next meeting of the CCG at 11am in the Newton Room, The Guildhall, St Peters Hill, Grantham.

The Governing Body of the CCG has been recommended to agree to continue the service but without an MIU nurse service.

A report to the CCG says: "This means that, whilst the current standalone MIU nurse service will cease, any patient with a minor injury (which is appropriate to be treated locally, as is the case now) will be able to attend the Out of Hourse Service at Grantham during these hours and have their injury attended to."

If agreed, the service will continue seven days a week between 6.30pm and 11.30pm.

The agenda and papers for the meeting are available via the CCG’s website www.southwestlincolnshireccg.nhs.uk as are future meeting dates.

Grantham district and county councillor and health campaigner Ray Wootten told the Journal: "I am extremely pleased that a minor injuries service will continue at Grantham Hospital. I wish to thank those members of the public and hospital campaigners who took time to complete the CCG survey. For me this demonstrates that their views have been listened to along with letters of support from the leaders of the County and District Council and myself."

Dr Dave Baker, GP and Chair of NHS South West Lincolnshire, said: “Our Governing Body welcomes patients and the public to this month’s meeting in Grantham. We hold these meetings in public to offer local people a first-hand opportunity to see how we are working to improve health services in South West Lincolnshire.

“It’s important that patients have a much greater say in their healthcare and there are a number of ways that they can do that. Most of our GP practices now have a patient participation group which allows patients to work with the practice to ensure services are meeting the needs of local patients. We also encourage our patients to get involved in other ways and more information is available on our website.”