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From De­cem­ber 1, 2025, the pub­lic has round-the-clock ac­cess to Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vices at the St Joseph En­hanced Health Cen­tre. The fa­cil­i­ty now op­er­ates 24 hours a day, sev­en days a week, in­clud­ing week­ends and pub­lic hol­i­days.

The ex­tend­ed hours al­low pa­tients to re­ceive med­ical at­ten­tion out­side of tra­di­tion­al op­er­at­ing times and are ex­pect­ed to ben­e­fit the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty catch­ment area and the wider na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly those bal­anc­ing work, school and fam­i­ly re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty says the move will al­so help re­duce pres­sure on the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex by di­vert­ing non-crit­i­cal cas­es to the St Joseph fa­cil­i­ty. In­creased use of the 24-hour Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vice is ex­pect­ed to im­prove pa­tient flow at the EWM­SC, al­low­ing emer­gency staff to fo­cus on ur­gent and life-threat­en­ing cas­es.