RESIDENTS are being reminded to make sure they choose the best-placed healthcare option for them this May bank holiday Monday.
Local pharmacists can also give expert confidential advice, as well as medicines for a range of minor ailments.
In Redditch tomorrow, Boots in the Kingfisher Centre is open from 10am to 5pm and Tesco Extra, Coldfield Drive, from 10am to 4pm.
Minor Injury Units
For cuts, grazes, wounds, sprains, minor eye injuries and minor burns, people can attend their local Minor Injuries Units (MIUs).
Unfortunately, the units cannot treat illnesses.
People needing treatment are advised to contact NHS111 either via the website – 111.nhs.uk – or by calling 111.
Trained advisers will assess symptoms and then recommend the most suitable course of action which could include a visit to an MIU.
Alternatively, people can walk into their local MIU which are open during usual opening hours over bank holiday weekends.
In North Worcestershire, the MIU at Bromsgrove’s Princess of Wales Community Hospital is open from 8am to 8pm everyday (last admission at 7.30pm), or Kidderminster Hospital’s which opens between 8am and 10pm.
Accident and Emergency departments – like those at the Alexandra Hospital and Worcestershire Royal – should only be used in absolute emergencies.
