Dr Hayley Harris, clinical director for NHS Lothian’s unscheduled care services, said that the Edinburgh walk-in centre will have one GP, one advanced practice nurse, one physio, two receptionists and one link worker.<\/p>\n
Harris said they were hoping to be able to see up to 60 patients a day, which equates to 21,360 over a year, excluding public holidays. <\/p>\n
The bid document for NHS Grampian’s three clinics was released to the BBC under freedom of information laws and shows the board is allowing for 20\u2011minute long appointments due to the “risks associated with seeing unknown patients”.<\/p>\n
The report states it is planning for 90,720 patient slots a year across its three proposed sites in Aberdeen, Elgin and Peterhead, where eight GPs and three triage nurses will be among the staff hired. <\/p>\n
The capacity of the Lothian and Grampian clinics is not yet clear. <\/p>\n
Elsewhere, NHS Fife last month submitted plans for a walk-in clinic in Buckhaven with an annual projected appointment capacity of 64,240 – but this proposal has not yet been agreed. <\/p>\n
Benbecula, which has a population of 1,286, will open a clinic next month that operates seven days a week, 09:00 to 17:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Hayley Harris, clinical director for NHS Lothian’s unscheduled care services, said that the Edinburgh walk-in centre will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-786864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scotland","tag-britain","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116128301223150232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}