Prestwich Health Centre

I am so lazy when it comes to filling things out and changing addresses. For this reason, when I found a bruise on my leg that had appeared from absolutely nowhere a few days ago, I was without an actual GP i.e. my old university in London was actually still my doctors. Well, that wouldn’t work.
So, I walked in to Prestwich Walk In Centre, gave my DOB and other details to the nice receptionist and sat down to wait. And wait I did. There were a fair few people in there before me, one of whom got carted out by two paramedics to an Ambulance waiting outside. So, I understood that I was somewhat low priority.
The staff were doing their best and remained calm and polite despite one very rude woman barking her details out at the receptionist and another girl walking out of the bathroom with her sample (!) not knowing what to do with it. Lovely.
I was seen after fifty minutes by one nurse and one trainee. They took a look, my temperature and my blood pressure and told me I should have it looked at by someone else as it wasn’t an insect bite as I thought. But that I would have to wait another hour to be seen by another nurse. So I left to make an appointment to re-​register with my old GP.
They are so overladen with walk-​in patients and a bit understaffed that I would only go here if you have an afternoon to while away and some form of entertainment. I only had my phone and that couldn’t get any reception. Unless it is an emergency with your child, as a few of them are, you might as well just fill in the damn forms, re-​register with your GP and go straight to them to get some answers.