Agenda item

Update from the Divisional Manager of Emergency Care and Trauma, St Bart’s.

Members received a presentation of the Divisional Manager of Emergency Care and Trauma, St Bart’s Hospital.

Members noted that the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) would return to its previous location on the St Bartholomew’s Hospital Site.

Members felt it would be useful to advertise the reopening of the MIU, and the Divisional Manager undertook to provide material to be distributed to various relevant publications in the City of London.

Members felt strongly that there should be positive consideration for the reopened MIU to provide an x-ray service. The Divisional Manager undertook to consider this, and to feedback to the Committee if it was a viable option, but was unable to commit to any future provision.

The Deputy Chairman asked where patients arriving at the unit with suspected heart issues would be sent. The Divisional Manager replied that the MIU is staffed with experienced EMTs who would make a clinical assessment and send patients to the Barts Heart Attack Centre if appropriate. The Deputy Chairman requested for this information to be sent in a letter to the Committee.

RESOLVED, that – the oral update be received.