Urgent Care Centres

Urgent care centres are medical clinics that provide same-day, urgent treatment for non–life-threatening illnesses or injuries, such as infections, sprains, earaches, broken bones, and fevers. These centres may have access to diagnostic equipment and onsite laboratory services. They currently exist in jurisdictions across Canada and internationally, and may go by different names. To inform policy and decision-making needs, Canada’s Drug Agency is undertaking an Environmental Scan and evidence review to identify the ideal components of an effective urgent care centre, to learn about the experiences of other jurisdictions who have implemented urgent care centres and understand the models they have used, and to review existing program evaluations, or other evidence, of urgent care centres in similar health care systems (e.g., clinical improvements, access to care, and impact on emergency department wait times).

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