Minor Injuries Service

Attached to Lynton Health Centre is our nurse led minor injuries service.   
Contact telephone number: 01598 752520 (Weekends District Nurse Only)

Opening Times

Monday to Friday 8am – 6pm    Triaged by a GP and this is not a walk-in service.                                      

Currently no weekend or Bank Holiday service.

The nursing team can see, treat and discharge the following conditions in patients over the age of 2:

• Sprains & strains to foot, ankle, wrist, knee, mild neck/shoulder pain following acute injury
• Ticks
• Bites & Stings
• Minor allergic reactions
• Minor head injuries                                         
• Minor thermal burns
• simple cuts & grazes or splinters
• foreign bodies in eye/ear/nose
• Boils/carbuncles/skin infections
• Bladder infection (not male)

Problems that we would not be able to deal with include:

• Dental problems/dental pain/infection
• Holiday makers requiring ear syringing or who have forgotten medication
• chronic problems such as back/joint pain that has existed longer than a few days and not associated with recent injury.