| Tooting Walk-in Centre Refurbishment |
Tags: Health | Tooting | Wandsworth PCT
| Friday, 02 October 2009 10:09 |
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Sadiq Khan MP visited Tooting Walk-in Centre on Friday 25 September 2009 to have a look around the refurbished building, find out how Walk-in Centre staff have cut A&E attendances, and which services could be on offer in the future. After over nine years of providing a minor illness and injury assessments and treatment to the local community from 7am to 10pm seven days a week, Tooting Walk-in Centre has received a well deserved make over. Staff working at the nurse led service have seen the Centre transformed, with an extra five treatment rooms, lighter brighter more comfortable office space and a new, but all important staff room, which means the Centre’s hard working staff can fully relax between shifts .Located on the St George’s Hospital site, it’s not just the environment that has changed. Over the last year, the Centre has introduced four new services and now provides GP registration, weekend and bank holiday wound dressing clinics, a range of services specifically targeted at commuters and evening cervical screening. In August, Tooting Walk-in Centre’s new assessment unit arrived, allowing staff to assess patients presenting with coughs, colds and flu like illnesses without them having to enter the Centre or put other patients at risk of infection. Earlier this year NHS Wandsworth situated a care navigator outside the to A& E entrance, to welcome patients arriving at A&E, enquire about their symptoms and where appropriate redirect them to the Walk-in Centre, this is thought to have already reduced A&E attendances by around18 patients a day. Following the tour, Sadiq Khan said: “People often say there is too much change in the NHS, so it’s good to visit a centre where the changes are welcomed and the benefits so immediate. I know from personal experience what an amazing job Tooting Walk-in Centre staff do. They see almost 200 patients a day and yet their professionalism and dedication never fails them, no matter what time of day you need treatment, you know that that treatment will be administered by a helpful and pleasant member of staff, that’s what really make the difference and that’s what makes people come here. I commend you all for doing such a great job.” Di Caulfield-Stoker, Chief Operating Officer, Community Services Wandsworth said: "The Tooting Walk-in Centre has become a fantastic health centre at the heart of a community needing fast and easy access to healthcare. Over the years it has not only improved the building and the range of services available, but has also developed an excellent reputation. Yet despite all these achievements, it staff continue to strive for further healthcare improvements for the local community. As a result, over the next six months we hope to provide many new services, giving local residents even more healthcare choices and justifying the Centres position as a beacon for other south London health facilities."
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