INFORMATION

Worcester Walk-In
Health Centre
www.worcesterwalkin.co.uk

As well as providing all of the usual general practice services, there will be a focus on bringing health and wellbeing to people with busy, active lives who cannot necessarily always find time to attend their own GP practice.

Worcestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) is now working with the Elgar Healthcare to develop new ways of providing healthcare services across the county, which could include nurses going out to community centres.

Dr Adam Thompson, who was a founding director of Elgar Healthcare, said: “My co-director Dr Charlie Harris and I are delighted that the PCT has given us the opportunity to work with them to deliver this new service for Worcestershire."

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Worcester Walk-In Health Centre
Opened in August 2009

As part of the Department of Health’s programme to improve access to GP services by the general public throughout England and Wales, the Worcestershire PCT have awarded a contract to Elgar Healthcare to set up the new Worcester Walk-In Health Centre which opened in August 2009. The unit is keen to build upon the high quality of general practice already delivered in Worcester and is open 8am to 8pm every day of the week, 365 days of the year and is open to registered and non-registered patients alike.

This centre is not designed to replace an individual’s own GP as Worcestershire already has an established network of high quality GPs around the county. This new service is designed to complement the treatment given by a patient’s usual GP by improving access to primary care services, health screening and health promotion services.

For patients who live within the city boundary of Worcester, they can choose to register as a patient at Worcester Walk-In Health Centre in the same way that you may change your GP now if you so wish. The service you will receive as a registered patient will be the same as at any other GP surgery, but simply with longer opening hours.

For patients who are not registered at Worcester Walk-In Health Centre but who attend the centre for an appointment, information about that consultation will be communicated back to the patients ‘regular’ GP in the same way that Out of Hours consultations are done currently.

The walk-in centre is also not intended to replace the Out of Hours service which patients can continue to access in the usual way from 6.30pm to 8am on weekdays and all day at weekends.

In addition to improving access to all of our population in Worcestershire, the centre has many different objectives such as:

  • help to reduce inappropriate attendance at A&E
  • attract hard to reach groups such as those with substance misuse problems, alcohol problems, mental health problems, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) population, young people, migrant and/or homeless population and those from a lower socio-economic group.
  • assist in delivery healthcare to the city’s expanding university population
  • the clinic will run on a ‘no appointment necessary’ basis and as the centre is open to both registered and non-registered patients the centre will also be promoting the convenience factor to commuters who find it difficult to attend their own GP during the working week

For more information about the centre, the services it will provide, its location, news about our target date of opening to the public and much more, please click on the link below to go directly to the Worcester Walk-In Health Centre website.