Normal Opening Times
Monday - Friday |
AM |
PM |
Doctors' Appointments |
8.00am to 11.30am |
2.00pm to 6.20pm |
Practice Nurse Appointments |
8.30am - 12pm |
12.30pm - 6pm |
Phlebotomy Appointments |
Every day from 7.00am to 12pm |
HCA Appointments |
Daily from 12.30pm |
|
Reception |
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 6.30pm |
Phone lines open from 8.00am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday |
We are also now offering early morning ( before 8am) appointments. Please ask at reception.
Health advice when we are closed
A pharmacy is a good place to go for minor ailments. Your local pharmacist is a medicines expert who can advise on the best way to treat colds, coughs, sore throats, hay fever, verrucas, digestive problems and more, and you probably won’t need a prescription as many over-the-counter medicines are readily available for these conditions. You can find out when local pharmacies are open on the NHS Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) website.
The Health Help Now app can be downloaded the app from www.healthhelpnow-nhs.net or from Google Play or the App Store. It can guide you to the best service for your symptoms, and tell you the nearest NHS services that are open during evenings, weekends and bank holidays, including pharmacies.
If you don’t have internet access or a smartphone, and need health help when it’s not an emergency, NHS 111 can give you free health advice, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Just dial 111.
If you need an urgent GP appointment when we are closed, there is an Urgent Care Centre at Darenth Valley Hospital & Gravesend Community Hospital (8am - 8pm) Queen mary's hospital (Sidcup) and Erith Hospital (8am - 10pm). Queen Marys' is open 24hrs
For emergency dental care, contact your own dentist first. At evenings, weekends and bank holidays (8.30am to 1.30pm) you can call DentaLine on 01634 890300.
For people with mental health issues, free confidential emotional advice and guidance is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from the Mental Health Matters helpline on 0800 107 0160. The Samaritans are also there to listen at any time of day or night and can be reached by dialling 116 123.
If you suffer a minor injury, trained nurses at minor injury units (MIUs) across Kent can assess and treat cuts, sprains, minor burns, minor dislocations of the fingers and toes, minor eye injuries and remove foreign bodies from, for example, ears and noses. MIUs cannot treat babies under one year old. MIUs are open every day of the year. You can find minor injury units at the following hospitals.
Gravesham Community Hospital: Bath Street, Gravesend, DA11 0DG. Phone: 01474 360816. Open 8am to 8pm, every day of the year.
Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital: Bell Road, Sittingbourne, ME10 4DT. Phone: 01795 418300. Open 9am to 9pm, every day of the year.
Sheppey Community Hospital: Plover Road, Minster, ME12 3LT. Phone: 01795 879100. Open 9am to 9pm, every day of the year.
If you have chest pains or your injury or medical problem is urgent or life-threatening, you should visit A&E at Darent Valley Hospital or Medway Hospital.