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GP appointments available over the Easter holidays in Tower Hamlets

Posted on: 24 March 2021

Knowing the right place for medical help over the Easter holidays can help you get the treatment you need faster.

Our GP Extended Hours Hubs and Urgent Treatment Centre will be open on both bank holidays.

Out of hours appointments are also available every normal weekday evening between 6.30pm and 10pm, and between 8am and 8pm on Saturdays and Sundays, including the Easter weekend. These appointments can be booked by calling your own GP practice as usual during working hours or by calling 111 out of hours. If you have any urgent medical needs, you can also visit NHS 111 online for advice at any time. Appointments will be held in the best way to keep you safe from COVID.

COVID-19 vaccinations will be taking place as normal over the bank holidays so if you have an appointment please attend.

NHS 111 can also make direct appointments online, by phone, or face-to-face with a variety of health services, including at A&E, Urgent Treatment Centres, specialised mental health crisis services, dental services, and pharmacists for urgent repeat prescriptions and advice. If needed, an ambulance can also be dispatched.

NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To get help from NHS 111, you can:

  • go to 111.nhs.uk (for people aged 5 and over only).
  • call 111 for free from a landline or mobile phone (all ages).

If you can, order enough medication to last you over the Easter weekend. However some community pharmacies will also be open on the bank holidays, you can check which and the opening hours on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/pharmacy/find-a-pharmacy.

Dr. Jagan John, GP, and chair of NHS North East London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said:

"We understand people can sometimes need an appointment with a GP or nurse outside normal working hours.

"The NHS is here for you and has flexible appointments across evenings and weekends and bank holidays. The way we have been seeing patients has changed in the last year to keep everyone safe from COVID but rest assured you will be properly assessed and if required, seen face-to-face.

"If you have a COVID-19 vaccination booked for over the Easter weekend please do attend."