About us

The Hammersmith and Fulham centres for health are hospital-based ‘polyclinics’ - primary care health centres that provide urgent care services to patients as well as GP services to local residents. Hammersmith centre for health was the first hospital-based polyclinic to open in London.

• Read more about the background of polyclinics

The centres offer a full range of GP services and minor injury/illness care under one roof, and are open seven days a week.

The centres run alongside the emergency units at Hammersmith Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital. Our teams of primary care doctors and nurses work closely with the hospitals' emergency teams to make sure everyone gets the right care quickly. Figures from the Hammersmith centre for health show that 78 percent of walk-in patients were seen or treated by a GP or emergency nurse practitioner in the first few months it was open.

The centres are commissioned by NHS Hammersmith and Fulham and operated by Partnership for Health, a consortium of three local health organisations:
• A primary care provider - Central West London Community Services
• An unscheduled care provider - London Central and West Unscheduled Care Collaborative
• An acute NHS trust – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

The Hammersmith centre for health opened on April 23, 2009 and the Fulham centre for health opened on September 8, 2009.