Use NHS 111 online or call 111 to find your nearest and quickest treatment option. NHS 111 is available 24/7. Find other ways to contact 111.
If needed, expert clinicians will arrange for you to be seen at a hospital.
You can also walk into a minor injury unit. If we are busy we may tell you go to another unit so you can be treated more quickly. We will see people who are seriously ill first.
Your pharmacist can provide treatment or some prescription medicines, if needed, for 7 common conditions, without the need to see a GP.
Highly trained pharmacists can assess, treat, and if needed, provide some prescription medicine sinusitis (aged 12 years and over), sore throat (aged 5 years and over), earache (aged 1 to 17 years), infected insect bites (aged 1 year and over), impetigo (aged 1 year and over), shingles (aged 18 years and over) and urinary tract infections (UTIs) (women aged 16 to 64 years), without needing to see a GP.
Your pharmacist can also provide you with oral contraception, without a prescription or the need to see a GP. In addition, your pharmacist can now provide you with the emergency contraceptive pill (morning after pill) for free. They can also discuss long-term contraception options with you at the same time.
Pharmacists will signpost patients to other local services where necessary.
NHS Quicker is a free app that provides live waiting and travel times for NHS services providing urgent care across Devon and Cornwall.
The app provides information about healthcare services available to you based on your location, helping you to choose the right service and spend less time waiting.
You can use NHS Quicker in your web browser or download the NHS Quicker App to your mobile phone.
Emergency departments in our main acute hospitals in Truro , Plymouth and Barnstaple are open 24-hours for serious life and limb-threatening injury or illness only.
We have a network of minor injury units across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Their opening hours and waiting times are shown below.
Stennack Surgery provides a walk-in service for minor injuries only. The service is available Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm. If you have an illness and would like to be seen at Stennack Surgery, contact NHS 111.
There are also minor injury units and services available in Devon:
Emergency and urgent care services in north Devon (opens in new window)
These waiting times are continually updated. This means that by the time you have travelled to a unit the waiting time may have changed.
