St Joseph health centre now offers 24-hour GP services

From De­cem­ber 1, 2025, the pub­lic has round-the-clock ac­cess to Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vices at the St Joseph En­hanced Health Cen­tre. The fa­cil­i­ty now op­er­ates 24 hours a day, sev­en days a week, in­clud­ing week­ends and pub­lic hol­i­days.

The ex­tend­ed hours al­low pa­tients to re­ceive med­ical at­ten­tion out­side of tra­di­tion­al op­er­at­ing times and are ex­pect­ed to ben­e­fit the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty catch­ment area and the wider na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly those bal­anc­ing work, school and fam­i­ly re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty says the move will al­so help re­duce pres­sure on the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex by di­vert­ing non-crit­i­cal cas­es to the St Joseph fa­cil­i­ty. In­creased use of the 24-hour Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vice is ex­pect­ed to im­prove pa­tient flow at the EWM­SC, al­low­ing emer­gency staff to fo­cus on ur­gent and life-threat­en­ing cas­es.

The ini­tia­tive falls un­der the di­rec­tion of the Ho­n­ourable Min­is­ter of Health, Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe, and the lead­er­ship of new­ly ap­point­ed Chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh, along with the Au­thor­i­ty’s Board of Di­rec­tors, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer and Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment.

“By ex­tend­ing our hours, we aim to make high-qual­i­ty health­care more ac­ces­si­ble and avail­able to every mem­ber of the pub­lic. This 24/7 ser­vice re­flects our com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing pri­ma­ry care, eas­ing the bur­den on the EWM­SC Ac­ci­dent & Emer­gency De­part­ment, and en­sur­ing that our cit­i­zens can al­ways re­ceive the right care at the right time,” Dr Gopeesingh said.

The St Joseph En­hanced Health Cen­tre will con­tin­ue to of­fer walk-in Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vices for a wide range of med­ical con­di­tions as part of the NCRHA’s on­go­ing ef­fort to ex­pand pri­ma­ry health­care ser­vices across the re­gion.