A new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) has opened at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

The walk-in facility will treat injuries and illness which are not life-threatening but still require urgent treatment.

The UTC is in the new three-storey Dartmoor Building and will be open daily from 8am to 8pm.

The Dartmoor building will also shortly house the Fracture Clinic, Main Outpatients and Pre-operative assessment.

Dr Anne Hicks, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, said: “The new Urgent Treatment Centre will give patients a choice of where to visit when they have a minor illness or injury. This increased capacity in the local area will ease the pressure on our Emergency Department, enabling emergency medicine specialists to focus on those patients who are seriously unwell.”

Derriford hospital will also open a new state-of-the-art Emergency Care Building in 2028.

John Stephens, Director of Infrastructure Strategy & Site Services said: “The opening of our new Urgent Treatment Centre marks an important milestone in the continued transformation of Urgent and Emergency Care. It forms part of a broader programme of healthcare developments at Derriford and beyond, designed to deliver state-of-the-art facilities for the people of Plymouth and the wider South West.”