MINOR INJURY ASSESSMENT
North East Leith Cluster
Service available to all patients aged 8 years and over to quickly and easily treat injuries that are less than 7 days old.
Please call 111
Western General Hospital
Patients must be:
8 years old and over
Able to make own way to assessment
Injuries within 14 days
Wounds less than 24 hours old with controlled bleeding
Objects in nose or ear
Crush injury to fingers /toes with no wound
Ring removal from fingers /toes
Minor burns or scalds (not involving hands, face or genitals)
Head and face injuries not in exclusion criteria (not head injuries with loss of consciousness, vomiting/disturbed vision/ altered behaviour. reduced consciousness, underlying bleeding conditions or patient on anticoagulants)
Eye injuries not in exclusion criteria
Limb injuries (below shoulder or below knee)
Animal bites including insect bites & stings (not human bites)
Patients with a fracture that requires review after being treated outwith NHS Lothian
Animal bites with localised swelling and no evidence of allergic reaction