GP Care Wakefield delivering GP extended hours

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-9.30 pm Monday to Friday, Saturday’s 9am-5pm, Sunday’s 9am-1pm and Bank Holidays 9am-3pm.   Telephones will be automatically diverted during operating hours.  Outside of these times please telephone 111 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.

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/Nurse

In addition to the above, during 5-9.30pm Monday to Friday, and 9am & 5pm on Saturday’s, Sunday’s 9am-1pm and Bank Holiday’s 9am-3pm, patients can be seen for routine care. Please ask reception.

Routine GP Appointments

These face to face appointments are on Saturday and are pre-bookable 2 weeks in advance for problems that are not urgent and does not need continuity of care.

For more information, please ask at reception.