Many pharmacists offer a service known as the Minor Ailment Scheme for free advice and medicine to treat common conditions without needing to visit a GP (your family doctor) to get a prescription. Details of the opening times of local pharmacy opening times are available on the My Health London website
Our local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have details of the minor ailments scheme on their websites: Enfield CCG and Haringey CCG.
NHS Choices website
The NHS Choices website has information about conditions and treatments, an automated symptom checker and information about commonly used medicines. It also provides details of all NHS providers in England, including local GPs (family doctors). Patients may provide and read feedback on NHS services.
Your GP (family doctor)
Most GPs (family doctors) offer a range of appointment times and open appointment sessions to registered patients. Details of local GP services are on the My Health London website. See "GP Hubs" (below) for information about evening, weekend and public holiday times when GPs are open.
GP Hubs: evening and weekend GP appointments in Enfield and Haringey
GP Hubs in Enfield:
Appointments can be booked at an Enfield GP Hub by calling 03000 333 666
Evenings, Monday–Friday, 6.30pm-8pm
Weekends and public holidays, 8am-8pm
NHS 111 can also make appointments at the hubs for any Enfield patients who contact them.
Where are the Enfield GP Hubs?
Evergreen Primary Care Centre, 1 Smythe Close, Edmonton N9 0TW
Carlton House Surgery, 28 Tenniswood Road, Enfield EN1 3LL
The Woodberry Practice, 1 Woodberry Avenue, Winchmore Hill N21 3LE
More information: Enfield GP Hubs information leaflet or visit www.enfieldccg.nhs.uk
GP Hubs in Haringey
Appointments can be booked at a Haringey GP Hub by calling 0330 053 9499
Evenings Monday–Friday, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Weekends and public holidays, 8am-8pm
NHS 111 can also make appointments at the hubs for any Haringey patients who contact them.
The following links provide information about Haringey GP Hubs in Turkish, Bulgarian and Polish - the three most commonly used languages in our local community after English.
Where are the Haringey GP Hubs?
Bounds Green Group Practice, Gordon Road, London N11 2PF
Somerset Gardens Family Health Centre, 4 Creighton Road, London N17 8NW
Queenswood Medical Practice, 151 Park Road, London N8 8JD
More information: Haringey GP Hubs information leaflet or visit www.haringeyccg.nhs.uk
Accident & Emergency (A&E)
Major A&E departments assess and treat patients who have serious injuries or illnesses. Generally, you should visit A&E or call 999 for emergencies, such as:
- loss of consciousness
- pain that is not relieved by simple analgesia
- acute confused state
- persistent, severe chest pain
- breathing difficulties.
If you are injured or seriously ill, you should go to or be taken to A&E. If an ambulance is needed, you can call 999, the emergency phone number in England.
Major A&E departments offer access 365 days a year and usually open 24 hours a day. North Middlesex University Hospital's A&E department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but please note that not all hospitals have an A&E department.
Once you're at an A&E department, a doctor or nurse will assess your condition and decide on further action. You may have to wait a short while before you are seen. There is a national operational standard in place for A&E services under which 95% of people attending A&E should be seen, diagnosed and treated within four hours of arrival. But at busy times it can take longer, so if your condition is not urgent and you are not seriously ill, please use other NHS services listed on this page, if possible. Thank you.
Page last updated: January 2018