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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:

5pm – 9.30pm, Monday to Friday

9am – 5pm, Saturdays

9am – 1pm, Sundays

9am – 3pm, Bank Holidays

The Practice telephones will be automatically diverted during operating hours. Outside of these times please telephone 111 (see below) or 999 if life-threatening. If your need is not urgent, please call the surgery during normal surgery hours.

Following triage of your problem, if deemed appropriate, the service will offer you a GP appointment at Trinity Medical Centre or Pontefract General Infirmary.

Children who could benefit from extra support to manage their symptoms this winter may also be referred to the new Children’s Observation Hub after their appointment. Staffed by local GPs and nurses, the Hub team helps parents and carers monitor their child’s symptoms safely at home, providing advice, assessments, and reassurance by phone, video, and in-person to avoid unnecessary hospital trips and help youngsters get better at home.

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.

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.

NHS 111

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

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.