Remember, if you or a member of your family become critically ill and need immediate medical treatment you should telephone 999 and ask for an ambulance.
If you become ill after your Doctors surgery has closed between 6.30p.m. and 8.00a.m. Monday to Friday and over the weekends and Bank Holidays and need urgent medical help you can now call the Somerset Out of Hours Medical Service. Telephone 0870 240 6334.
You should use the NHS 111 service if you urgently need medical help or advice but it's not a life-threatening situation.
Call 111 if:
- you need medical help fast but it's not a 999 emergency
- you think you need to go to A&E or need another NHS urgent care service
- you don't know who to call or you don't have a GP to call
- you need health information or reassurance about what to do next
NHS Choices can be found at http://www.nhs.uk
Doctor's Surgeries
Silton tel: 01747 840226
Wincanton tel: 01963 435700 (incl minor injuries unit 08:30 - 18:00. Mon - Fri)
Mere tel: 01747 860001
Hospitals
Wincanton Community Hospital (Verrington)
Dancing Lane
Wincanton
Somerset
BA9 9DQ
Minor injuries unit (not A&E) tel: 01963 828444
Yeovil District Hospital tel: 01935 475122
Higher Kingston
Yeovil
Somerset
BA21 4AT
Salisbury Hospital tel:01722 336262
Odstock Road
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP2 8BJ
Royal United Hospital, Bath 01225 428331
Westminster Memorial Hospital, Shaftesbury 01747 851535 (incl. Minor Injuries Unit) 7 days a week 09.00-18.00 hrs Mon to Fri and 10.00-16.00 hrs Sat and Sun and bank holidays.
Frome Community Hospital 01373 454740 (incl. Minor Injuries Unit) 7 days a week 08.00-21.00 hrs 01373 454770
Shepton Mallet Community Hospital 01749 342931 (incl. Minor Injuries Unit) 7 days a week 08.00-18.00 hrs 01749 341101
Pharmacy
Boots Pharmacy - High Street, Wincanton. 01963 32205
Boots Pharmacy,– Health Centre, Dyke’s Way, Wincanton 01963 33235
Gillingham HS Pharmacy, 10 High Street, Gillingham 01747 822427
Peacemarsh Pharmacy, Middlefield House, Marlott Road, Gillingham 01747825481
The Barn Surgery, Newbury, Gillingham 01747 826709
Mere Pharmacy, The Square, Mere 01747 860232
Defibrillator
(in phone box on Bleak Street) – Maintained by Ian Steadman 01747 841041
