A&E
Walk-in Centres and Minor Injuries Units
Unless you need urgent
These are services for your convenience if
medical attention you should your usual surgery is shut. They help you
not go to A&E as it will keep avoid going to A&E for non urgent problems
the service free for those
e.g.
with serious problems e.g
 coughs/colds/flu
 major accidents
 children with fever
 obvious broken
 emergency contraceptive advice
bones
 minor cuts & wounds
 face weakness,
 muscle & joint injuries/sprains
slurred speech, loss
 stomach ache, vomiting, diarrhoea or
of power in one arm
indigestion
(possible stroke)
 possible fracture of bone
 large or gaping
wounds
Wansbeck Primary Care Access Centre &
 loss of consciousness Minor Injuries Unit Closed Bank Holidays,
 chest pain, central, located next to A&E Dept at Wansbeck
heavy (possible heart Hospital.8.30am – 6.30pm Please ring for
attack)
appointment – 01670 529 205.
 overdose
 large burns & scalds Molineux Street – Byker
 meningitis symptoms 8am – 10pm every day and Bank Holidays Tel:
Your GP
Forum Family Practice
NHS 111
Pharmacy
Your local pharmacy
Choose NHS
provides expert
Your GP is the first port of call for any 111when you advice on the
day to day health needs and we have are ill or injured treatment of common
the advantage of knowing about your and unsure
health problems e.g
medical problems and can help you what to do next,
 sickly
prevent problems in the future. We do or if you have
stomachs
everything the walk-in centres do. If any questions
 headache
we are shut, you can ring us and an about
 diarrhoea
answer message will give you the “out conditions
 head lice
of hours” number. GP services are
treatments or
 hangover
available 24 hours a day, but it is
local health
 common
much better to see us in normal
services.
colds
working hours, when we have access Tel: 111
 minor skin
to your medical record, unless you
complaints
Dentistry
have a serious health problem that
 conjunctivitis
really cannot wait.
To register with
an NHS Dentist Boots: Manor Walks
The surgery opening times are:call NHS Direct Sainsbury’s: Manor
Mon-Fri: 8:30 – 6:30pm
and they will let Walks
(Closed for training Tues 12-2pm)
you know which Co-op: The Village
dentists are
Surgery
0191 275 58 62. Not under 2yrs old.
Available 24 hrs a day
Sat:
open
8.40-11.15am
by
preseeing
NHS
Westgate Walk in Centre – at Newcastle
North Tyneside General
bookable appointment only, not for
patients in your Extended opening
General Hospital
pharmacy:
Hospital – Rake Lane, North 8am – 10pm 7 days a week.
urgent problems.
area.
Shields.
Sainsbury Pharmacy,
Ponteland Road Health Centre – Newcastle
Emergency
Wansbeck District General 8am – 8pm every day Tel: 0191 271 9030
Tel:- 01670 713021
Manor Walks. Tel:
Dentist
Hospital – Woodhorn Lane, Battle Hill Walk-in Centre – Wallsend
www.forumfamilypractice.co.uk
01670 739379
8am – 8pm every day Tel: 0191 295 85 20
Ashington.
Contact the Out Mon – Sat: 7.00am Royal Victoria Infirmary Minor Injuries Unit When we are closed and on Sat am: of Hours Dental 11.00pm
Royal Victoria Infirmary –
Richardson Rd, Newcastle- - Newcastle
telephone 111
Service on:
Sun: 10.00am 9:00am to 4:00pm, 7 days a week
upon-Tyne
Tel: 0845 608 4.00pm
0191 271 9030
0324
I have saved this in the library under “patient information”, then “local health services”.
I find it really useful to give to people on a Friday afternoon, also for people you are worried might need additional medical assistance
overnight and for people who really need a dentist, or those that complain that we are not always open.
Can you check it to make sure it feels safe (my last version was harder to understand I think) and also that you are happy with what I
have put about our practice (cannot fit much in!).
I have taken out the section on minor injuries as we are likely to be losing the enhanced service.
I have added chest pain into the list of things to go to A&E with as I think it had “fallen off” the last version.