PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Urgent Treatment Centres: Canterbury (31 January 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2020 to Question 2446, what plans are in place for the delivery of an urgent treatment centre in Canterbury during 2020.

Asked by:
Rosie Duffield (Independent)

Canterbury and Coastal Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has designated Kent and Canterbury Hospital as a tranche 6 Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The plan developed is for the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) currently located at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital to change to a UTC from April 2020.

This means urgent care services will be offered at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital in line with the national UTC specification, in practice an enhancement on the services currently available from the MIU. The regional team is working with NHS Digital, the CCG and acute trust to ensure compliance with the specification and standards as laid out in national policy.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
5 February 2020