Urgent Wound Care Services
We are able to provide routine and urgent basic wound dressings dependent on appointment availability. For more complex dressings and where you need to be seen urgently please refer use the alternative services listed below.
Please try to avoid attending walk-in and urgent care centres during their busiest hours i.e. after 4pm as they may not be able to do the dressing change and may ask to come back at another time.
NHS Walk-in Centres
Distance in miles from West Hampstead Medical Centre in brackets.
Finchley (5.0m)
Finchley Memorial Hospital, Granville Road, London, N12 0JE Tel: 020 8349 7500
Open 8.00am to 9.00pm 7 days a week
Urgent Care Centres
Distance in miles from West Hampstead Medical Centre in brackets.
St Charles (3m)
St Charles Hospital, Exmoor Street, London, W10 6DZ Tel: 020 8969 2488
8am to 6pm 7 days a week
Brent (4.3m)
Central Middlesex Hospital, Acton Lane, NW10 7NS Tel: 0333 999 2575
Open 24hours 7 days a week
Chase Farm (11m)
The Ridgeway, Enfield, EN2 8JL Tel: 020 8375 2999
Open 8.00 to 10.00pm 7 days a week.
Please Note: They do not do dressing changes after 6pm.
If it is an emergency or you feel that your wound has suddenly deteriorated i.e become infected and requires urgent changing but you are unable to access the above facilities, please revert to your local Emergency Department who all locally also have urgent care centres ie Royal Free Hospital, University College London Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and Barnet General Hospital.
For Diabetic Patients Only:
Royal Free Hospital Podiatry Hot Clinic
Patient must have Diabetes and:
- hot, swollen foot
- foot infection (sepsis, cellulitis)
- new foot ulceration
- sudden onset of foot pain
- burn to the foot
- gangrene
- puncture wound
Walk-In: Podiatry Department, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG
Monday–Friday, 09:00–16:00 and Saturday–Sunday, 09:00–11:30.
If it is an emergency or you feel that your wound has suddenly deteriorated i.e become infected and requires urgent changing but you are unable to access the above facilities, please revert to your local Emergency Department who all locally also have urgent care centres ie Royal Free Hospital, University College London Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and Barnet General Hospital.
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