Nelson Tasman Settlement Support

A Partnership between Department of Labour and Nelson City Council

After hours

24 hour emergency health care for serious emergencies is available from the Emergency department of the Nelson Hospital, 102 Waimea Road.

The After Hours and Duty Doctor operates from 96 Waimea Road, Nelson; seven days a week from 8am to 10pm, with a duty doctor on-call after 10pm. This service is available for visitors to the area or those who have shifted here but don’t yet have a GP, and it covers GP calls after hours for Nelson city and rural areas to Wakefield and Mapua.
Telephone: 00 64 3 546 8881.

Other rural areas have rosters for after hours care - accessed by directions on GPs’ answer-phones.