Minor injuries service in provided in the Emergency Nurse Practitioner led minor injury units.

Minor injuries are injuries of legs and arms that include sprains, strains broken bones and minor joint dislocations (e.g. fingers and toes), wounds and minor burns, ear and eye injuries, minor head injuries as well as minor back and neck injuries.

There are 4 minor injury units in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. These are at:

• Nevill Hall Hospital
• Royal Gwent Hospital
• Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr
• Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan

Adults and children over one year old can be treated at a minor injury unit.

For information on injuries that can be managed within minor Injury departments in the Health Board, please view the webpages on the ABUHB website Minor Injury Units – Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Occasionally your injury may be assessed by the triage nurse or Emergency Nurse Practitioner as potentially more serious and may require you being redirected to the Emergency Department at GUH.

If you are unsure where to go, NHS 111 can help you.

To get help from NHS 111, you can:

•  go to 111.nhs.uk website (for people aged 5 and over only)
• call 111

You will answer questions about your symptoms on the website, or by speaking to a fully trained adviser on the phone, and you can ask for a translator if you need one.

Depending on the situation, you will:

• find out what local service can help you
• be connected to a nurse, emergency dentist, pharmacist or GP
• get a face-to-face appointment if you need one
• be told how to get any medicine you need
• get self-care advice