Clinic dates, times and venues

At the New Croft Centre there are a number of different ways you can access the service. These include:

• Queue and wait
• Express clinic
• Appointments

Queue and wait

Queue and wait (no appointment needed) sessions for contraception, emergency contraception, condoms and lube, pregnancy testing, STI testing and GUM services are available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9am to 3pm, Thursday 10am to 3pm.

Please note that those attending the ‘queue and wait’ walk-in sessions will be seen on a 'first come - first served basis'. The numbers of people we can see will vary each day due to staff availability. If the queue and wait session is full you will be advised that you can either attend our next queue and wait session or you can attend our appointment only sessions. If you have signs or symptoms of infection, please inform a receptionist who will arrange for you to speak in privacy to one of our nurses.

Please be aware that specialist appointment clinics may be running at the same time as the queue and wait sessions. Therefore some people with pre-arranged appointments may be seen sooner than those waiting to be seen for the queue and wait sessions.

Express clinic

An express clinic runs alongside the walk-in session Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9am to 3pm, Thursday 10am to 3pm. This is for people who want a rapid STI (sexually transmitted infections) screen. At the express clinic you don’t need to ‘show your bits’ to a doctor or nurse.

If you have no symptoms of infection and no questions or concerns we would recommend using this service. The tests are just as reliable at detecting infections as those taken by a doctor and nurse.

In privacy you can take your own swabs or provide a urine sample for chlamydia and gonorrhoea and a health care assistant will take a blood sample for syphilis and HIV. Test results will be texted to you within 10 working days.

Please be aware that in the express clinic we are unable to see;

• under 16s
• men who have sex with men
• sex workers or people working in the adult film industry
• anyone who is attending as a result of sexual assault

This is because further tests, immunisations and/or discussion maybe required.

Appointments

Appointments for all sexual health, contraception, STI testing, GUM and HIV services are available between the times shown on the table above.

Lunchtime appointments are also available but times vary. Please contact the New Croft Centre - 0191 229 2999 - for details.

Outreach clinic details

West end of Newcastle

Ponteland Road Health Centre
Ponteland Road (next door to Aldi)
Cowgate NE5 3AE

Tel: 0191 229 2999 (main centre no.)
Mondays: 9.00am - 1.00pm

East end of Newcastle

Walker Clinic
Walker Health Centre
Church Walk NE6 3BS

Tel: 0191 229 2999 (main centre no.)
Wednesday 1.30pm - 4.00pm
Fridays: 10.00am - 12.30pm

North Newcastle

Kenton Clinic
Betts Avenue Surgery
Kenton Centre,
Sherringham Avenue NE3 3QP

Tel: 0191 229 2999 (main centre no.)
Wednesdays: 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Just for young people (under 25s)

Streetwise - Young People’s Project
Unit 3
Blackfriars Court
Dispensary Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4XB

Tel: 0191 230 5400
Monday, Tuesday, Fridays:
2.00pm – 4.30pm
Thursdays: 4.00pm - 6.30pm
Saturdays: 11.00am - 4.00pm (under 18s)

WEYES (West End Youth Enquiry Service)
4 Graingerville North (Opposite bowling alley)
Westgate Road
NE4 6US
Wednesdays: 4.30 - 6.30pm
Bus routes 10,11,38,39,40

Newcroft Centre - young people only session (for 13 - 19 year olds only)
New Croft House
Market Street East
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6ND
Wednesdays: 4.30 - 7pm

Newcastle College - Students Union
Rye Hill Campus
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 7SA

Thursdays: 12.30 - 2.30pm