If your injury is not serious, you can get help from a Minor Injuries Unit (MIU), rather than going to an A&E department. Two local minor injuries units are in Ripley Hospital and Ilkeston Hospital and their opening times are between 8am - 10pm - no appointment is usually necessary. Minor injuries units can treat:

• Sprains and strains
• Broken bones
• Wound infections
• Minor burns and scalds
• Minor head injuries
• Insect and animal bites
• Minor eye injuries
• Injuries to the back, shoulders and chest

Kelvingrove Medical Centre also offers a limited minor injury service for injuries, which are not amenable to simple domestic first aid, including for example:

• Bruises
• Bites/Stings
• Sprains/Strains
• Sunburn
• Splinters
• Whiplash
• Minor Head Injuries where there has been no loss of consciousness
• Minor lacerations
• Minor eye injuries
• Minor burns and scalds

The above service at the Surgery is by appointment only