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Your guide to

urgent care

If you need urgent medical help or
assistance, NHS 111 can direct you to the
nearest place, depending on what treatment
you need. Often people don’t need to go to
A&E and you can get treatment quicker at a
pharmacy or urgent treatment centre.

All our locations offer a walk-in-service, however, Most urgent treatment centres can treat adults
call NHS 111 before you travel to make sure you or children with:
are directed to the most appropriate service for • minor illnesses such as suspected chest, urinary, eye,
you. You may be directed to another service if we ear, skin or throat infections
are unable to treat you.
• worsening of existing long-term or chronic conditions
• Gravesham Community Hospital, Gravesend • abdominal (tummy) pain
• fractures, including to arms, legs, fingers, toes and knees
• Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone
• dislocations of fingers and toes
• Sevenoaks Hospital
• sprains and strains
• Sheppey Community Hospital • head injuries with no loss of consciousness

• Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital • removal of objects from ears or nose
• abscesses and bites
• Victoria Hospital, Deal
• cuts and wounds

Open seven days-a-week, 8am to 8pm. • burns or scalds
• eye injuries and objects in the eye
Sheppey and Sittingbourne are unable
to treat children under one. • emergency contraception
• minor pregnancy issues.

Sites run by other providers include:
• Estuary View Medical Centre, Whitstable

• Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Herne Bay
• Faversham Health Centre
• Kent and Canterbury Hospital
• Buckland Hospital, Dover

A local pharmacist may also be
able to help. You can find details
at stopthinkchoose.nhs.uk

For more visit www.kentcht.nhs.uk/in-an-emergency or call NHS 111.

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