Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, People and Economy, with an update on the development of Halton’s Urgent Care Centres (UCC) and the impact they had on residents and the local health economy.

The Board was advised that UCCs were a community-based primary care facility providing access to urgent care to a local population. In 2012/13, a review of UCCs within Halton helped inform an options appraisal as to how urgent care services within the Borough could be reconfigured to ensure local pressures and demand were met. It was reported that a number of options were considered for the delivery of an urgent care model in Halton. Following extensive consultation with professionals / clinicians and members of the public, the model chosen was to create two UCCs on the site of the former Minor Injuries Unit at Halton Hospital and the Walk in Centre in Widnes.

The report provided detail on the outcome for patients attending UCCs, the impact on the local health economy and the positive impact on the people of Halton.

RESOLVED: That

1)    the report and appendices be noted; and

2)    the Board continue to support Halton’s investment into the provision of the UCCs, as outlined in Halton’s current and new Better Care Fund (BCF) Plan, to be presented to a future meeting of Executive Board.