Minor Injuries Services - Castle Point & Rochford CCG

Description

Castle Point & Rochford Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking providers who can provide high qualityMinor Injuries services to improve patient experience/access to community services, patient’s choice and to avoid unnecessary referrals to secondary care. This service recognises a need for providing a minor injury service for events which have occurred within the last 48 hours. Professional consensus indicates that injuries and wounds over 48 hours old should usually be dealt with through normal primary care services, as should any lesion of a non-traumatic origin. By definition, such cases are usually the self-presenting ‘walking wounded.’ Ambulance cases are not usually accepted, except by individual prior agreement between the doctors and the attending ambulance personnel. The service shall be provided to all adults registered with a GP in Castle Point & Rochford CCG, including temporary residents. If patients are unregistered they must be living within the Castle Point & Rochford CCG area. Services provided under this agreement will include: • Initial triage including immediately necessary clinical action to staunch haemorrhage and prevent further exacerbation of the injury. • History taking, relevant clinical examination and documentation. • Wound assessment to ascertain suitability for locally based treatment and immediate wound dressing. • Appropriate and timely referral to secondary care where clinically appropriate. • Follow up care including re-dressing and/or suture/staples removal is included within the price and cannot be claimed as a separate episode or under any other agreement for suture removal and wound dressing. • Provision of adequate facilities including premises and equipment, as is necessary to enable the proper provision of minor injury services.