Useful Contacts
| Surgery | |
| The Wellbridge Practice, Wool surgery Meadow Lane, Wool, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 6DR Routine appointments (and enquiries after 2.00 p.m.) |
01929 462376 |
| Wool Surgery – Home Visits and Emergencies | 01929 463444 |
| OUT OF HOURS – Urgent Care Service
This is for urgent problems that cannot wait until the surgery re-opens. You cannot use this service for general enquires, to make appointments or order medications. If the surgery telephone answering machine fails to function outside normal hours please telephone Dorset Urgent Care Service |
Call 111
111 |
| Health Visitors Office Only – (weekdays) | 07384 241928 |
| Dispensary Enquiries Mon – Thurs 11am – 1pm and 2pm-6.30pm Fri 11am – 12.30pm and 3.30pm-6.30pm |
01929 401265 |
| NHS Dorset CCg (Clinical Commissioning Group)Vespian House, DORCHESTER,Dorset DT1 1TS –
For details of local primary medical services in this area |
01305 368900 |
| Hospitals | |
| Poole General | 01202 665511 |
| Dorset County, Dorchester | 01305 251150 |
| Emergency Dental Clinic
If you need urgent dental advice when your dentist is closed, you can call 111 to access the emergency dental service. This service operated between 6.30pm and 8am on weekdays, at weekends and over bank holidays and is not for routine dental appointments or enquiries |
Call 111 |
| Social Care and Health | |
| Wareham Social Care and Health | 01929 553456 |
| Social Care and Health Out Of Hours Emergency | 01202 668123 |
| Government Agencies | |
| Benefit Enquiry Line | 0800 882200 |
| Benefits Agency (Poole) | 01202 712600 |
| Benefits Agency (Weymouth) | 01305 328000 |
| Voluntary Services | |
| Share and Care – a community transport scheme for patients of the Wellbridge Practice
Share & Care is a group of your neighbours who volunteer to drive housebound patients without transport to their medical appointments or to deliver medicines to you from Boots or the practice. Medical appointments can be to the surgery, optician, podiatrist, dentist, etc. whether in Wool, Wareham, Dorchester, Poole or Bournemouth. A driver will pick you up from your home (any of the villages) and take you home. Their time is given freely but we ask for a contribution towards their fuel. (Currently 45p per driver’s mile; so Wool to Dorchester return = about £10.) Please ring our mobile (below), giving us 3 or 4 days notice at least. Messages are picked up regularly between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. We are here to help. If you wish to become one of our volunteers please ring our mobile – satisfaction guaranteed. |
07751 968944 |
Samaritans |
01202 551999 01305 771777 0345 909090 |
| Alcoholics Anonymous | 01202 296000 |
| Dorset POPP WAYFINDERS (part of Dorset POPP managed by Age Concern) Free Impartial & Confidential Advice for People over 50. | 01305 213345 |
