Crofton & Sharlston Medical Practice

Our Mission

To provide high quality healthcare with a friendly face to all the patients registered with our practice.

Company Profile

We are a General Practitioner's practice, made up of 10.000 patients.
We run 2 practice buildings. One building is at Crofton and caters for 6600 patients. The other building is at Sharlston and caters for 3400 patients.

Opening Hours

Since July 2008 there have been early morning and late evening sessions.
These are for pre-booked appointments ONLY.
You will not be able to enter the surgery at these early and late sessions unless you have an appointment.
If you have an emergency you will as before have to contact Local Care Direct (see below) or A&E.

Crofton Health Centre

Sharlston Health Centre

Out of Hours

The out of hours doctors service is provided by all Wakefield and Pontefract GP's collectively via Local Care Direct (LCD). This service operates at all hours the practise is closed. This is also true for the TARGET afternoons which happen once a month. (See News Page)

Remember that Local Care Direct is an out-of-hours service. They will NOT know any test results, they will NOT deal with routine enquiries, they will NOT deal with problems that can wait until we are open again. They will also NOT normally provide you with a script for any medication you have run out of, unless they feel it is an emergency.

Remember that when you call Local Care Direct, they do not know your full medical history as we do. If you have any pre-existing medical problems, it would be good to tell them. It is also useful to have a list of your medication or the actual packaging of the tablets with you when you phone.

Remember that as always you will only get a home visit if the doctor or nurse agrees with you that there is a need for this. If you need to be seen, you will be invited to come to the Trinity Medical Centre in Thornhill street in Wakefield (Opposite the Job Centre),

or in the Local Care Direct base in Pontefract which is in Pontefract Hospital. (at the same side of the road as the A&E department, but via the Main entrance NOT the A&E entrance)

Telephone               

08444 993 995 This is the surgery number.
                                    Out of hours you will automatically be switched through to Local Care Direct

Contact Information

This website is for information on the practice and its staff. It is not intended to provide answers to medical questions. Medical questions e-mailed or faxed WILL NOT be answered. Currently there is no way you can contact any of the staff of the two health centres by E-mail.

TELEPHONE

We operate a call handling system for all incoming telephone calls to both Crofton and Sharlston health centres.

To help speed up our service and reduce your time on the telephone, please make non urgent calls after 10.00am. We can still make routine appointments after this time.

                 08444 993 995

TELEPHONE CALL OPTIONS

• For Appointments        Press 1
• For Home Visits           Press 2 
• For Prescriptions         Press 3
• For Test results             Press 4
• Admin                            Press 5
• Medical Secretaries     Press 6
• Hold for the Operator
• To hear the choices again press 9

FAX

Postal address

Slack Lane
Crofton
Wakefield
WF4 1HJ

 

Electronic mail

Webmaster: webmaster@croftonandsharlston.co.uk
The webmaster will pass on suggestions for additions / alterations to the website.
The webmaster only deals with technical website issues, and incorrect content. Broken links can be passed on via this e-mail address. The webmaster will NOT respond to any other e-mails.

Send mail to webmaster@croftonandsharlston.co.uk with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: 02/06/07