Plans to move urgent treatment centre submitted

Plans have been submitted to relocate an urgent treatment centre (UTC) as part of a bid to improve the service.

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust wants to relocate Skegness UTC from its current location at the community hospital in Dorothy Avenue to a purpose-built extension at the Skegness Community Diagnostic Centre on Old Wainfleet Road.

Officials said the move would improve health services for people in the town, treat up to 65,000 patients per year and operate 24 hours a day.

The plans, lodged with East Lindsey District Council, will be decided at a later date.

A spokesperson for the trust said: "The move would bring new investment into local health services and provide an expanded, more modern UTC space, better equipped to meet the needs of people in Skegness and surrounding areas, now and in the future.

"It would also include an additional 50 car parking spaces."

The trust has recently concluded a 12-week public engagement exercise to gather the views of patients, staff and the local community.

"This feedback will help inform the next steps as we progress the proposals through the planning process," the spokesperson added.

According to the trust, the new UTC would offer same-day assessments and treatment for non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses, and provide X-rays, blood tests, wound stitching and dressing.

The facility would also employ 12 people, with the staff at the existing UTC relocating to the new site, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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