People in Maryport can now access an out-of-hours minor injuries unit at the town's cottage hospital.

Renamed the nurse-led treatment service, it opened on Monday operates from 9am to 7pm Mondays to Fridays and 11am to 7pm at weekends and on bank holidays. 

Maryport Health Services has been providing a service during normal opening hours, the out-of-hours service has been closed since June. 

David Lewis, associate medical director for Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: "After research, we realised that the name 'minor injuries unit' did not accurately reflect the services provided. 

"The main reasons people seek treatment are for wound dressings and minor cuts or grazes.

"We want patients to be receiving the right care, in the right place at the right time."

You should access the service if you are aged over five years old and need assessment and treatment of bruises or recent injuries that cannot be attended by simple first aid, insect bites and stings or minor sunburn assessment and dressings of wounds and superficial injuries closure of lacerations by stripping/gluing.

Conditions that cannot be treated by the new service people should continue to access healthcare services such and GPs, pharmacies and Cumbria Health On Call.