A UTC hospital is an Urgent Treatment Center Hospital.
UTC or urgent treatment center hospitals provide medical care when it's not a life threatening emergency.
The UTC or urgent treatment center hospital can diagnose and deal with many common problems that people go to the ER for.
Although if you have a life threatening illness, injury etc then you should go to a hospital that treats those conditions instead.
The urgent treatment centers (UTC) standards continue to require UTCs to offer patients the ability to walk-in and book an appointment.
Walk-in patients may be asked to book an appointment and return later if this is appropriate to their level of clinical need.
Urgent care centers are an alternative to A&E.
They are centers that treat minor injuries and illness that require urgent treatment that cannot be seen by your registered GP.
UTC hospitals are intended for the treatment of conditions which require urgent medical attention but are not life-threatening, such as broken bones, minor infections, sprains and strains, cuts, grazes, minor burns or scalds, and bites and stings.
A&E (accident and emergency) is for serious injuries and life-threatening emergencies only.
A&E is also known as the emergency department or casualty.
Life-threatening emergencies are different for adults and children.