Plans to move urgent treatment centre in Skegness submitted
Plans have been submitted to relocate Skegness Hospital urgent treatment centre (UTC) in an effort to improve healthcare for residents.
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals wants permission to relocate Skegness UTC from its current location at Skegness Community Hospital in Dorothy Avenue.
The UTC would move a short distance to Skegness Community Diagnostic Centre in Old Wainfleet Road – a recently built facility on the site of the former KwikSave supermarket.
Bosses say the move would improve health services for people in Skegness and could treat up to 65,000 patients per year. It would run 24 hours a day.
A spokesperson for the trust said: “We are proposing to relocate Skegness Urgent Treatment Centre from its current location at Skegness Community Hospital to a purpose-built extension at the nearby Skegness Community Diagnostic Centre, approximately a two-minute walk away, in Autumn 2027.
“The move would bring new investment into local health services and provide an expanded, more modern UTC space, better equipped to meet the needs of people in Skegness and surrounding areas, now and in the future.
“It would also include an additional 50 car parking spaces. We have recently concluded a 12-week public engagement exercise to gather the views of patients, staff and the local community.
“A report on the findings will be made publicly available shortly, and this feedback will help inform the next steps as we progress the proposals through the planning process.”
The new UTC would offer same-day assessment and treatment for non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses.
The hospital trust says it expects the facility to be equipped with X-rays, blood tests, wound stitching and dressing. The facility would operate seven days a week and will employ 12 people, with the staff at the existing UTC relocating to the new site.
The plans have been lodged with East Lindsey District Council which will make a final decision at a later date.