A doctor to your home in Bukit Timah, Holland Village, Sixth Avenue and Dempsey — landed properties and condominiums, any hour of the day or night.
Bukit Timah and Holland are predominantly landed — bungalows, semi-detached and terrace houses — alongside low-rise condominiums. Two groups call us most from here: families with young children, and adult children arranging care for elderly parents who have lived in the same house for decades.
That second group is the reason home visits matter in this district specifically. An 85-year-old in a three-storey house with a bedroom upstairs is difficult to move for a routine review, and the house itself tells a doctor things a clinic never sees — the stairs, the lighting, whether the bathroom is reachable at night.
National University Hospital at Kent Ridge is the nearest public emergency department for most of this area, and Gleneagles Hospital on Napier Road is the closest private option with a 24-hour urgent care centre. Parts of upper Bukit Timah sit closer to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital in Jurong East.
Where hospital care is needed, the doctor arranges the referral and hands over clinically rather than leaving you to explain it at triage.
Landed properties. Please tell us if the patient is upstairs and whether there is a lift. For a patient who may need to be moved, knowing the stair layout in advance changes what the doctor brings and whether an ambulance transfer needs arranging in parallel.
Gated developments and private estates. Some roads off Sixth Avenue and in the Holland Park area have controlled access; give us the resident's name at booking so the guardhouse can clear the visit.
Dogs. Mentioned more often than you would expect in this district — if there is a dog at home, please secure it before the doctor arrives.
Paediatric calls dominate the evenings: fevers, croup, ear infections and the vomiting illnesses that circulate through the international schools nearby. Parents here often prefer a home visit precisely because it avoids a waiting room full of other unwell children.
The other steady stream is geriatric: post-discharge reviews, medication reconciliation after a hospital stay, falls assessment, and the "not quite themselves" presentations that are hard to describe on the phone but obvious in person. See our guides on emergencies in the elderly and falls in the elderly.
Yes, and most of our visits here are to landed properties. Please let us know if the patient is upstairs and whether the house has a lift, as that affects what the doctor brings.
Yes — that is one of the most common reasons families in this area call. A home visit avoids moving a frail patient and lets the doctor assess how they are actually managing at home.
National University Hospital at Kent Ridge is the nearest public emergency department for most of the area; Gleneagles on Napier Road is the nearest private hospital with a 24-hour urgent care centre.
Yes. Paediatric house calls are a large part of our evening work here — fevers, ear infections, rashes and vomiting illnesses assessed at home rather than in a shared waiting room.
Urgent Care at Home
Contact: hello@urgentcareathome.sg · +65 8850 5133
If you need emergency or life-saving treatment, do not seek it through this service. Call 995 or go to the nearest Emergency Department immediately.