Urgent care centre and A&E

How to get help: Urgent Care Centre

Urgent care centre

Local people can still receive urgent care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at Queen Mary's in Sidcup despite the closure of A&E at the hospital. The urgent care centre can usually help if you need urgent treatment for problems such as these:

  • Minor cuts, bites, stings and nose bleeds
  • Burns and scalds
  • Dislocated fingers, thumbs and toes
  • Minor chest, neck and back injuries or pain
  • Foreign objects in wounds or other parts of the body
  • Injuries, sprains and strains
  • Infections, including wounds
  • Fractures to shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, legs and ribs
  • Minor eye injuries
  • Minor head injuries with no loss of consciousness and not related to alcohol
  • Minor ailments
  • Minor allergic reactions
  • Emergency contraception, simple women’s health problems, chlamydia testing and C-card.

Accident and Emergency (A&E)

There are A&E departments at the following hospitals:

Princess Royal University Hospital
Farnborough Common
Orpington
Kent
BR6 8ND
Tel: 01689 863486

Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Stadium Road
Woolwich
London
SE18 4QH
Tel: 020 8836 4360/1

Darent Valley Hospital
Darent Wood Road
Dartford
Kent
DA2 8DA
Tel: 01322 428100

For more information see the South London Healthcare NHS Trust or Darent Valley Hospital websites.