The walking wounded will be told to avoid visiting A&E amid a major NHS shake-up revealed today which aims to divert them to a series of new urgent care centres.
The Government has come up with the plan in an attempt to ensure hundreds of thousands fewer patients face long A&E waits in a bid to end 'corridor care'.
Almost £450million will be put into creating better care and more facilities with an emphasis on caring for people closer to their homes, according to officials.
Some 40 new same day emergency care and urgent treatment centres will also be established across England to treat and discharge patients the same day.
The centres will deal with all but the most serious cases, with millions of patients urged to visit them instead of A&E to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
