Herts Urgent Care (HUC) has been selected to run the new minor illness and injuries service in St Albans hospital.
HUC, the organisation that provides the local NHS111 service, will now work with Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (HWEICB) to ensure the new service is available for October this year.
The integrated urgent care hub will be run by specialist nurses with the support from GPs, providing same-day urgent care for health concerns that need prompt attention but aren’t life-threatening. Much like GP services, the integrated urgent care hub will work on an appointment basis with patients booked into the service through NHS111 or their GP practice.
It will be open for at least nine hours a day, seven days a week and will provide access to diagnostic services including predominantly x-rays.
HUC was selected to provide the new service after a rigorous selection process by local NHS clinicians and managers with the involvement of patient representatives, and was approved by the HWEICB Board on July 14.
Dr Vipul Parbat, ICB urgent care clinical lead said: “We have every confidence in HUC’s ability to successfully mobilise and deliver a safe, nurse-led minor illness and injury service for local patients. We’re now focused on getting the new service up and running so that we’re providing good support to patients as we enter the busy winter period.”
Chief Executive Officer of HUC, David Archer, said: “HUC has a long track record of providing high-quality care for patients in Hertfordshire and the East of England and we are proud to have been awarded the contract to provide the Integrated Urgent Care Hub at St Albans City Hospital.”
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