Minor Injury Unit hours to be cut in two Herefordshire towns (From Ledbury Reporter)
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Minor Injury Unit hours to be cut in two Herefordshire towns
9:49am Friday 28th September 2012 in News
MINOR Injury Units in Ross-on-Wye and Leominster are to have their opening hours cut.
Wye Valley NHS Trust says the move will help strengthen Hereford County Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit.
A review of the current service has found that members of staff manning the MIU’s have to leave wards and work alone or in pairs when they treat patients at the units during the night, putting them
at risk.
From Monday the units will open from 8.30am to 5.30pm on Mondays to Fridays.
Comments(2)
M M
says...
5:32pm Fri 28 Sep 12
People without transport how will they manage? The out of hours Doctors are very reluctant to visit this has been my experince having called them to a sick neighbour, after waiting two hours I called for an ambulance they were excellent and took the patient into hospital when they realised she lived alone
bobby47 says...
1:40pm Fri 28 Sep 12
I'll not have it said that I'm unreasonable.
There cant be anything worse than being mown down by some deranged and disgruntled Hereford tax payer and not being able to get treatment for the terrible injuries that would surely be sustained, particularly if the handcart was fully laden with the aforementioned produce.