GP Care Wakefield
GP Care Wakefield is an extended out of hours service owned by all Wakefield GP practices to cover the entire population of the Wakefield district. It operates from:
6pm-10pm, Monday to Friday, and
9am-3pm, weekends and Bank Holidays.
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The Practice telephones will be automatically diverted during operating hours. Outside of these times please telephone 111 (see below) or ring back during normal surgery hours, if your need is not urgent.
Following triage of your problem, if deemed appropriate, the service will offer you a GP appointment at Trinity Medical Centre or Pontefract General Infirmary.
There needs to be shared consent in place for the service to be able to provide safe care therefore please ensure you give explicit record sharing consent when accepting an appointment with the service. Patients who prefer not to give shared consent cannot access this service.
The service is not available for routine matters such as repeat prescriptions.
Please find here a link to the privacy notice relating to GP Care Wakefield: GP Care Wakefield Privacy Notice
Routine Care by HCA (Health Care Assistant)/Nurse
In addition to the above, between 6pm & 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am & 1pm on weekends and Bank Holiday's, patients can be seen for routine annual reviews of Heart Disease, Diabetes, COPD, Asthma and Stroke but only if you are well controlled and your condition is stable. Other routine nurse care includes:
- Blood tests
- Routine ECG (not chest pain)
- Spirometry
- Review of contraception pill
- Repeat depo injection
- Smears
- B12 injection
- Removal of sutures and clips
For more information please ask reception.
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If you require urgent medical attention which will not reasonably wait until the surgery re-opens then please telephone 111 (West Yorkshire Urgent Care Services) Calls from landlines and mobiles are free.
Monday to Friday 6.30pm to 8am, and
Friday from 6.30pm to Monday at 8am
Please note: between 6 and 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, all calls to the surgery will be redirected to the out of hours service.
Walk-In Centre
The local Walk-In centre is located at:
King Street Health Centre, 47 King Street, Wakefield WF1 2SY
Tel: 0845 121 1023
PLEASE NOTE:
The Walk-In Centre is open from 10am to 10pm EVERY DAY
Out-of-hours services are generally busy so please think carefully before asking to see a doctor and only do so if you genuinely cannot wait until the surgery re-opens.
In a genuine emergency you should call 999. Chest pains and/or shortness of breath constitute an emergency.