After hours and emergency care

For life-threatening injury and health concerns, call 111

Unless it’s an emergency, always call your own doctor first when you or someone in your family is sick or injured. Even after hours your call will be answered by a nurse who can give you free health advice.

For non-urgent after hours care

Call Healthline day or night on 0800 611 116 for trusted health advice and information from nurses, paramedics, advisors and doctors. You can choose to speak with a Māori clinician if you’re calling between 8am – 8pm.

There are a number of medical centres in the region that are open in the evenings, weekends and public holidays. If your normal doctor is closed or you are from out of town you can visit these medical centres.

Wellington Accident & Urgent Medical Care

• Location: 17 Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington
• Phone: (04) 384 4944
• Hours: 8am to 9pm every day
• Additional services: X-ray and fracture clinic facilities
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Kenepuru Accident and Medical Clinic

• Location: Kenepuru Hospital, Raiha Street, Porirua
• Phone: (04) 918 2300
• Hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Additional services: X-ray and fracture clinic facilities available during the week and from 10am to 4pm on weekends
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Paraparaumu Team Medical

• Location: Coastlands Mall, State highway 1, Paraparaumu
• Phone: (04) 297 3000
• Hours: 8am to 9:45pm every day
• Additional services: X-ray facilities

Lower Hutt After Hours Medical Centre

• Location: 729 High Street, Lower Hutt
• Phone: (04) 567 5345
• Hours: 5.30pm to 10pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 10pm Saturday, Sunday and public holidays

Upper Hutt Medical Centre

• Location: Queen Street carpark, Upper Hutt
• Phone: (04) 920 1800
• Hours: 8.30am to 8pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday

Pharmacies can provide you with free health advice as well help you with your medication. A lot of pharmacies are open in the weekends. There are also a few pharmacies that are open late at night and on public holidays.

Urgent Pharmacy Wellington

• Location: 17 Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington
• Phone: (04) 385 8810
• Hours: 9am to 11pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 11pm Saturday, Sunday and public holidays

Kenepuru Pharmacy

• Location: Kenepuru Hospital, Raiha Street, Porirua
• Phone: (04) 238 9939
• Hours: 9am to 10pm Monday to Friday, 10am to 10pm Saturday, Sunday and public holidays

Life Pharmacy Coastlands

• Location: Coastlands Shop 6, Main Road, Paraparaumu
• Phone: 04 298-9988
• Hours: 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Sunday (and late night Thursday until 8.30pm)

Lower Hutt Urgent Pharmacy

• Location: After Hours Medical Centre 729 High St, Lower Hutt
• Phone: 04 939-6777
• Hours: 6pm to 11pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 11pm Saturday, Sunday and public holidays

Queen Street Pharmacy

• Location: 35 Queen Street, Upper Hutt
• Phone: 04 528 5858
• Hours: 9am to 9pm Monday to Sunday

Patients in most urgent need are seen first at our Emergency Department.

If your injury or illness is not urgent you may have to wait several hours to be seen.

To find out if you need to come to the emergency department you can call Healthline 0800 611 116 

If your doctor is unavailable, you can visit the Wellington After Hours Clinic.

Wellington Hospital Emergency Department

• Location: Wellington Regional Hospital, 69 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington 6021
• Hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The nature and urgency of your illness or injury will be assessed when you arrive at the Emergency Department. Patients are treated in order of urgency, not arrival times, so those with more severe symptoms or injuries are treated before those with less serious conditions.

Conditions are classed as:

• Life-threatening – for example a cardiac arrest. Treatment is immediate.
• Emergency – for example chest pain, or severe shortness of breath. We aim to treat these patients within 10 minutes.
• Urgent – for example bad injuries or severe abdominal pain. We aim to treat these patients within 30 minutes.
• Semi-urgent - for example a fractured wrist. We aim to treat these patients within 60 minutes.
• Non-urgent – for example minor strains or sprains, which could be treated by a GP/primary healthcare organisation. We aim to treat these patients within two hours.

GP referrals to the Emergency Department

Your GP may refer you acutely to the Emergency Department specialist on call or to another hospital specialist. Please make the triage nurse aware of this on your arrival in the Emergency Department, and hand over any letter the GP might have given you for hospital staff. We cannot make “appointments” for patients referred by their GP for review in the Emergency Department but we may be able to facilitate aspects of care from triage such as xrays and blood tests.

Eligibility for free emergency care

Emergency healthcare services are funded by the government. Anyone needing emergency care will receive treatment. Patients that do not qualify for free or subsidised healthcare will be charged for their treatment. Read more about whether you are eligible for free healthcare in an emergency. 

Emergency care for Kāpiti residents

Some Kāpiti residents requiring emergency ambulance care and a possible trip to Wellington Hospital now have a treatment option closer to home.  Read more

Te Haika is a mental health and addictions contact centre for people in crisis or experiencing moderate to severe mental health or addiction problems.It is for everyone from Wellington, Porirua, Kāpiti, the Hutt Valley and the Wairarapa.

Te Haika is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by mental health and addiction professionals.

• Phone: 0800 745 477
  
• Fax referrals: 04 918 2204
• Hours: 24 hours, 7 days
• Email: tehaika@ccdhb.org.nz
• Website: Te Haika