Place Based Care

All of the face to face urgent care services we deliver across Lancashire & South Cumbria and Yorkshire

FCMS has provided high quality urgent care services since 1994 

Since beginning as a local GP Out of Hours provider, we are now proud to deliver a wide range of urgent care services across multiple locations

The Place Based Care team are all about providing face to face patient services in the heart of local communities. These services help to increase patient access, whilst reducing the pressure on primary and secondary care

225,000

patients seen in our Urgent Treatment Centres each year

30

years of specialist urgent care delivery

94%

of patients seen within 4 hours

Lancashire Place Based Care

Open 8am-8pm, 365 days a year, our GP led Urgent Treatment Centre has supported the population of Morecambe, Lancaster and the surrounding areas with a high quality, accessible service for over a decade.  We accept walk in appointments for patients with minor injuries, and have bookable appointments for urgent illness presentations, which can be accessed via NHS111.

FCMS also provides Blackpool Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) on Whitegate Drive (formerly the Walk in Centre)

Open 24/7, 365 days a year, our hard-working teams support patients presenting with minor injuries and illnesses. The team work very closely with the local NHS 111 service to ensure patients can be booked into our service with ease

Our UTC services are available to the Fylde Coast population and to temporary residents and visitors

This is a GP Led service with a multidisciplinary team of staff. 

Located at the Fleetwood Health & Wellbeing Centre on Dock Street, the centre is open from 8am – 8pm 7 days per week including Bank Holidays. X-Ray facilities are available Monday-Friday 9am – 4.30pm and pharmacy open Monday-Friday 9am – 6.30pm

In East Lancashire, we provide the Rossendale Minor Injuries Unit. Located in Rawtenstall we have a mix of highly skilled team members who treat minor injuries patients, offering both bookable and walk-in appointments. The service is located at the Rossendale Primary Health Care Centre and is operational 8am-8pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year

We provide the frontline reception service at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Our experienced and extensively trained staff play a really important role in supporting patients to use the digital triage system. This ensures they arrive at the most appropriate location whether the Emergency Department, the neighbouring Urgent Treatment Centre (also provided by FCMS), pharmacy or self-care. 

We provide GP Out of Hours Services in Morecambe & Lancaster, on the Fylde Coast and also in West Lancashire.

These services are operational 6pm – 8am on weekdays and all-day weekends and bank holidays. Appointments are available via NHS111.

The Out of Hours service provides cover for local GP practices when they are closed for patients who need urgent medical attention

Appointments are made by contacting NHS111

Operating 7 days a week we offer additional primary care hours across the Fylde Coast. The service includes evening and weekend routine appointments e.g. GP appointments, smear clinics, chronic disease management, phlebotomy clinics, ear syringing, and more. Appointments are booked via a patient’s own GP practice

Our dedicated Wound Care Team provide clinics for patients registered with a Fylde or Wyre GP currently in Fleetwood, St Anne’s and Freckleton

Yorkshire Place Based Care

Our Urgent Treatment Centre is co-located at Doncaster Royal Infirmary and operates 24/7 365 days a year using a highly skilled multidisciplinary team. Appointments are made  as directed by the Emergency Department

This service operates from within the Urgent Treatment Centre and is operational Monday – Friday 6pm – 8am and all-day Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays. Appointments are made via NHS111.

Based on South Parade in Doncaster, we offer a Same Day Health Centre service. Patients receive a comprehensive consultation from a suitably qualified clinician within 24 hours of the appointment being requested.

Tier 3 Wound Care service provided both in and out of hours. Appointments are made by GP practice.

FCMS also provides a Wound Care service for patients with complex needs.

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