Urgent Wound Care Services

We are able to provide routine and urgent basic wound dressings dependent on appointment availability. There is more limited routine complex wound care dressings provision. For more sooner 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. Please check the weblinks for each services’ opening hours and feel free to contact them directly to confirm their wound care provisions.

urgent wound care

 

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

Learn more about Finchley NHS Walk-in Centre

Edgware (5.4m)

Edgware Community Hospital, Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware, HA8 0AD

Learn more about Edgware NHS Walk-in Centre

 

Urgent Care Centres

Distance in miles from West Hampstead Medical Centre in brackets.

Royal Free Hospital (1.6m)

Pond Street, Hampstead, London NW3 2QG

Learn more about Royal Free London Hospital Urgent Care Centre

St Charles (3m) 

St Charles Hospital, Exmoor Street, London, W10 6DZ

Learn more about St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing

Brent (4.3m)

Central Middlesex Hospital, Acton Lane, NW10 7NS

Learn more about Central Middlesex Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre

Chase Farm (11m)

The Ridgeway, Enfield, EN2 8JL Tel: 020 8375 2999

Learn more about Chase Farm Urgent treatment centre

 

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.

 

diabetic

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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