A new night time clinic opened in Newcastle's Quayside on December 9th, to be available on Friday and Saturday nights from 8pm to 8am, offering trolleys, stretchers, toilets, water and medical treatment to drunken patients for minor injuries. The clinic is staffed by ambulance staff, an A&E doctor and Red Cross and St John's Ambulance volunteers. More details in this Observer story
Funding has come from Newcastle Primary Care Trust, but despite early claims for its success, the clinic has already been relocated from the Guildhall to St John the Baptist Church Hall in Grainger Street, after complaints from residents living near the original venue. And according to this Evening Chronicle story, the PCT plans to wind up the service altogether in the New Year.
See previous post on Norwich SOS Bus.
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