{"id":20242,"date":"2017-01-18T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=20242"},"modified":"2017-01-18T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T15:06:12","slug":"alternatives-ae-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/18\/alternatives-ae-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to A&E this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>inter brings more coughs, colds, flu and tummy bugs and those with long-term health conditions and the over 65s are particularly vulnerable to illness when the lower temperatures kick in.<\/p>\n

If you do feel unwell, seek immediate advice and help from a pharmacist, before your symptoms get more serious.<\/p>\n

And if you do need medical assistance, your pharmacist or GP can advise you about ailments such as having a minor injury or cold and flu-like symptoms. All GPs will offer an emergency out-of-hours service and NHS walk-in centres or a Minor Injuries Unit can treat people who have minor medical problems. Urgent cases such as loss of consciousness, severe chest pain, severe bleeding, trouble breathing or a suspected broken bone should be reserved for A&E.<\/p>\n

Local walk-in and urgent care centres include:<\/p>\n

Greet Urgent Care Centre<\/span> <\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

50 Percy Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, B11 3ND<\/p>\n

Open 8am-8pm every day.\u00a0 Tel: 0345 111 1310<\/p>\n

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Birmingham NHS walk-in centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Lower ground floor, Boots, 66 High Street, Birmingham, B4 7TA<\/p>\n

Open Monday-Friday 8am-7pm, Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 11am-4pm. Tel: 0121 255 4500<\/p>\n

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South Birmingham GP walk-in centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

15 Katie Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6JG<\/p>\n

Open 8am-8pm every day. Tel: 0121 415 2095<\/p>\n

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Erdington Health and Wellbeing Centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

196 High Street, Erdington, B23 6SJ<\/p>\n

Open 8am-8pm every day.\u00a0 Tel: 0121 686 8010<\/p>\n

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Summerfield GP and Urgent Care Centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

134 Heath Street, Winston Green, Birmingham, B18 7AL<\/p>\n

Open 8am-8pm. Tel: 0345 245 0769<\/p>\n

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Solihull urgent primary care service<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Solihull Hospital (next to the Minor Injuries Unit), Lode Lane, Solihull, B91 2AE<\/p>\n

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Washwood Heath Urgent Care Centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Clodeshall Road, Saltley, Birmingham, B8 3SW<\/p>\n

Open 9am-9pm every day.\u00a0 Tel: 0121 322 4310<\/p>\n

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Walsall walk-in health centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

19-21 Digbeth market square, Walsall, WS1 1QZ<\/p>\n

Open 7am-6pm Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Saturday and bank holidays, closed Sundays. Tel: 01922 605 730<\/p>\n

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Burntwood health and wellbeing centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

High street, Chasetown, Burntwood, WS7 3XH<\/p>\n

Open 8am-8pm. Tel: 01543 687 440<\/p>\n

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Sir Robert Peel Minor Injuries Unit<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Plantation Lane, Mile Oak, Tamworth, B78 3NG<\/p>\n

Tel: 01827 263 800<\/p>\n

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Samuel Johnson Minor Injuries Unit<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Trent Valley Road, Lichfield, WS13 6EF<\/p>\n

Tel: 01543 412 900<\/p>\n

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Warren Farm Urgent Care Centre<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Warren Farm Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham, B44 0PU<\/p>\n

Open 8.30am-7.30pm every day except Christmas day<\/p>\n

Tel: 0121 465 5613<\/p>\n

Did you know \u2013 even if you are out of town you can join any GP practice as a temporary patient. The NHS choices website has a handy search facility to see which practices cover your local area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter brings more coughs, colds, flu and tummy bugs and those with long-term health conditions and the over 65s are particularly vulnerable to illness when the lower temperatures kick in. If you do feel unwell, seek immediate advice and help from a pharmacist, before your symptoms get more serious. And if you do need medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":20244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,44,37,3,283,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contributors","category-health","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}