Urgent Care
The Hastings Health Centre’s Urgent Care service is your one stop ‘walk in’ medical and health care service.
Walk-in accident and medical service
No appointment is needed. Urgent Care is open seven days a week from 8am to 8pm including public holidays and is available to anyone including visitors to Hawkes Bay.
Every patient is triaged by a nurse on arrival to help with assessing priority of treatment.
Our department meets NZ Urgent Care 2015 Standards and ACC benchmarks.
A wide variety of services support Urgent Care including:
- X-ray services
- Casting Clinic – for many types of broken bones
- Minor trauma including suturing, burns and other dressings
- Eye examinations
- Laboratory
- ECG
- Advanced treatment of infections
- Advanced treatment of dehydration
- Sexual health
- Nurse led services
Urgent Care Team
Jayne Garvey - Urgent Care Operations Manager
Dr Jess Pollard - Medical Director Urgent Care
Steve Harkness - Clinical Team Lead
