Help Shape Minor Injuries and Illness Services in Angus

The Angus Integration Joint Board (IJB) and the Strategic Vision for Minor Injury and Illness Services

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Angus Integration Joint Board (IJB) is responsible for planning and overseeing health and social care services in Angus. Established through a partnership between NHS Tayside and Angus Council, the IJB ensures that health and care services work together effectively to meet the needs of the local population.

At its meeting on 26 February 2025, the IJB approved the Strategic Vision for Minor Injury and Illness Service provision in Angus (link to document).  The vision is to create seamless and compassionate urgent care system in Angus, delivering timely, high-quality physical and mental health support close to home, ensuring optimal health and care outcomes for children, young people, and adults— anytime, day or night.

Further Engagement and Decision-Making Process

Once we have collected all your views and opinions via the questionnaire, an options appraisal will take place, which will include public representatives in the decision-making process. 

Once a preferred option has been identified, a further round of public engagement will take place which will include in person meetings. During this phase, the preferred option will be presented, and additional feedback will be gathered. This is likely to take place in April 2025.   We will provide more details when this stage will take place.

What is an Options Appraisal? 

The Options Appraisal is a structured process used in healthcare to carefully compare different ways of delivering services. It looks at key factors such as how safe and effective each option is, the quality of care it provides, and the impact on patients' health.

The process is led by healthcare professionals and is based on clinical research, expert advice, and best practice guidelines. The goal is to make decisions that are in the best interests of patients and their care.

Change ideas identified so far:

1. Maintain the Existing Model – Minor Injury and Illness services would continue to be provided from Arbroath, Forfar
2. Restore Montrose MIIU – Minor Injury and Illness Services would be restored in Montrose (Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, excluding public holidays) while also continuing to operate in Arbroath and Forfar.
3. Centralised MIIU Model – Minor Injury and Illness Services would be based in Arbroath, providing a central hub for more complex cases, while the introduction of Enhanced Community Treatment and Care (CTAC)* services across Angus, would increase local access to minor injury care for less complex cases.
4. Hybrid Model with Two MIIU Hubs – Two fully operational Minor Injury and Illness Service Hubs would be based in Arbroath and Stracathro to manage more complex cases, with Enhanced CTAC services operating in Forfar and Montrose, ensuring broader local access to treatment.

*Community Treatment and Care (CTAC) services provide a range of community-based healthcare services, including monitoring of long-term conditions, wound care, and phlebotomy (blood sampling).

An Enhanced CTAC would expand these services to include elements of Minor Injury care, improving local access to treatment without the need for a visit to MIIU.