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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 18:00 – 22:00 Monday to Friday, and 09:00 – 15:00 Saturday’s, Sunday’s and Bank Holiday’s. 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 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.

Routine care by HCA/NurseIn addition to the above, during 18:00 & 20:00 Monday to Friday, and 09:00 & 13:00 on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays, patients can be seen for routine annual review of Heart Disease, Diabetes, COPD, Asthma & 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 and Removal of sutures and clips.

For more information, please ask at reception.

If an emergency please telephone 999