It was closed for three weeks in June and has reopened with restricted hours
A Derbyshire urgent treatment centre will continue to have restricted hours “for the foreseeable” future due to NHS vacancies and sickness absence. The Ilkeston Urgent Treatment Centre at Ilkeston Community Hospital, in Heanor Road, has been operating on reduced hours for more than a month, after spending three weeks closed.
Board reports from the trust detail that Ripley’s urgent treatment centre closed early due to “safety reasons” 13 times in June, with the same happening four times at Whitworth and twice in Buxton. The trust wrote: “Our Urgent Treatment Centres are under real pressure, particularly in the south of the county, where the continuing high levels of demand have coincided with a sudden reduction in capacity due to vacancies and unplanned absences.
"Ripley, Buxton and Whitworth UTCs are all open 8am-8pm to walk-ins and appointments. Pressures across UTCs continue with rising demand, increasing acuity and finite capacity. A comprehensive UTC recovery plan is in place; however, this is reliant on successful recruitment and an improving absence position. Recruitment is ongoing, with some recent appointments of substantive trainee advanced clinical practitioners and bank GPs. Recruitment of experienced ACPs is proving challenging.
“For some time now, the Ilkeston service has been an appointment-only system via NHS 111 and that has worked well with very few patients arriving without appointments, certainly after the first few days of the well-publicised appointment system in September last year. The handful of patients who have arrived without appointments are signposted appropriately, to the best available care for their needs. Ripley UTC is six miles away with both appointments and walk-in availability.
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