Burnham and Berrow Medical Practice does not provide a minor injury service.
Minor Injury Services can be found via the NHS website.
Examples of what CAN be treated include:
- Minor cuts requiring simple closure techniques (stripping, gluing etc)
- Minor trauma to hands, limbs or feet where a strain or sprain is suspected
- Minor dislocations of phalanges (fingers and toes)
- Removal of foreign bodies
- Minor head injuries where the patient has not lost consciousness
- Bites – human, animal and insect
- Minor burns
Examples of what CANNOT be treated include:
- Minor illness not resulting from any injury or trauma
- Any problem which requires a 999 response
- Any patient who cannot be discharged home after treatment
- Any patient with airway, breathing, circulatory or neurological compromise (unless known to the practice and management plan in place)
- Actual or suspected overdose
- Accidental ingestion, poisoning, fume or smoke inhalation
- Blows to the head with loss of consciousness or extremes of age
- Sudden collapse or fall in a public place
- Penetrating eye injury
- Chemical, biological, or radioactive contamination injured patients
- Full thickness burns
- Burns caused by electric shock
- Partial thickness burns over 3cm diameter or involving
- Injuries to organs of special sense
- Injuries to the face, neck, hands, feet or genitalia
- New or unexpected bleeding from any bodily orifice if profuse
- Foreign bodies impacted in bodily orifices, especially in children
- Foreign bodies deeply embedded in tissues
- Trauma to hands, limbs or feet substantially affection function
- Penetrating injuries to the head, torso, abdomen
- Lacerating/penetrating injuries involving nerve, artery or tendon damage.