Primary care & walk-in
A family practice and a walk-in clinic
The ordinary medicine everybody needs, at 231 Dundas St E — whether you are looking for a family doctor or just need to be seen today.
What we will do here
- Walk-in
- Looking for a family doctor
- Prescription renewals
- Ongoing conditions
- Mental health
- Bloodwork in the buildingSpecimen collection here, so it isn’t a second trip
- Immunizations
- Travel health
- TB testing
- Physicals, driver’s medicals and forms
- Minor procedures
- Cervical screening
- Contraception and pregnancy options
- Newborn and child checkups
Two different things, and the difference matters
A walk-in visit solves the thing in front of you today. It is the right choice for a chest infection, a form that needs signing, a rash, a worry that will not wait.
Rostering with a family doctor is a different arrangement: somebody holds your whole record, notices patterns across years, and keeps track of the screening you are due. Ontario has a shortage of it and we will not pretend otherwise about capacity, but where we can take someone on, we will say so plainly rather than leave you on a list you never hear about again.
You do not need to choose one to use the other. Being seen at a walk-in here does not require rostering, and rostering does not mean waiting for an appointment when something is urgent.
What it costs
With a valid health card, an insured visit costs you nothing. Most of what happens in a family practice is insured.
Some things are not — notes for employers, most third-party forms, driver’s medicals, some travel services. Those are uninsured, and you will be quoted before the work is done rather than billed after. See physicals and forms for how that will work.
If you have no health card
Come anyway and say so at the desk. Being uninsured changes what a visit costs; it does not change whether you can be seen, and it is a more common situation in this neighbourhood than the paperwork assumes.
The rest of the practice
This clinic also has a focused practice in gender-affirming care and in HIV and sexual health. That is a statement about scope, not about who is welcome at the door — the same clinicians handle blood pressure, ear infections and child checkups, and most of what happens here on any given day is exactly that.
Common questions
Do I need an appointment?
Not for walk-in. Exact hours and booking arrangements will be published before we open — get an email and you will have them the day they exist.
Can I bring my children?
Yes, and they can be patients here too. Newborn and child checkups are part of ordinary family practice.
Do you do bloodwork on site?
Yes — see bloodwork in the building. Not having to make a second trip to a separate collection centre is a small thing that saves a whole morning.
What if I need something you don’t do?
You get told that plainly and pointed somewhere real. Being sent away with a shrug is the thing worth avoiding.