Minor injury units
Minor injury units can treat adults and children over 12-months of age, with minor injuries such as the following:
- minor wounds
- minor human, insect and other animal bites and stings
- minor burns or scalds
- minor head injuries and scalp lacerations
- foreign bodies in the nose or ear
- minor limb injuries
- minor eye injuries
Children under 12-months of age, with minor injuries, need to be seen at emergency departments.
Children with illnesses, or gross limb deformity injuries, should also be taken to an emergency department. In our area, this is Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen, or Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth. You may be asked by staff at a Minor Injury Unit, at NHS 111 Wales, or by a GP, to take your child to one of these hospitals if this is necessary.
Minor injury units are run by an experienced team of highly skilled specially-trained emergency nurse practitioners, triage nurses and health care support workers. Prince Philip Hospital, in Llanelli, is a doctor-led unit.
Some are located on main hospital sites, which have emergency departments as well, and others are in community-based health care centres.
In an emergency, please dial 999. For illnesses, which are causing you concern, please check your symptoms by clicking here to visit the online symptom checker (opens in new tab) or speak to your GP. If you are unsure, please dial NHS 111 Wales.
Click here to visit our Accident and Emergency webpage (opens new tab)..
