After Hours Care

Care Outside Normal Opening Hours 

High Street Family Practice ensures reasonable arrangements for medical care, including the follow up of seriously abnormal and life threatening pathology results for our patients outside our normal opening hours.

Emergency contact numbers for each doctor at our practice has been given to the following organisations:

Launceston After Hours Service

Launceston Pathology

Launceston General Hospital

Nursing Homes regularly visited

GP Assist

Your doctor will be contacted by these organisations in the event of a serious life threatening medical emergency.

Available options for Patients who require urgent medical assistance outside normal opening hours are as follows:

Medical EMERGENCIES – Phone 000

Available at ANY time of day

Launceston General Hospital – Accident and Emergency – Phone 63487405 Available at ANY time of day

GP assist – Urgent medical advice – Phone 1800 022 222

Available ONLY after 6:00pm Week nights

Launceston After hours Clinic – Appointments necessary – Phone 63314588

Available from 6:00pm Friday to 08.00am Monday including Public Holidays.

All patient correspondence from after- hours providers are forwarded directly to your regular doctor.

If you have any questions regarding our practices’ after hours care arrangements or would like a copy of our After-hours policy, please phone 6334 5500.