If you have any worries regarding your child’s development, please speak to the GP during a normal appointment.
Child Health Surveillance and Well Baby Clinics
Phlebotomy (Blood Tests)Â
The practice has a phlebotomist who will carry our routine blood tests as requested by the GPs and the nurse practitioner. Available Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings by appointment.
Child Immunisation Clinic
Clinics are held Thursday mornings. If this is not convenient, children can be seen at any other practice nurse surgery by appointment.
Smoking Cessation Clinic
The practice tries to encourage all smokers to quit and provides in-house smoking cessation clinics for one to one appointments.
Diabetic Clinics
Run by Practice Nurses and Dr Majid. Patients will be invited to attend by letter.
Asthma Clinics
It is important to have regular check-ups to help maintain good control of asthma. Our specialist clinics are ran by our practice nurses. To make an appointment please contact the surgery and ask for an appointment to attend the nurse Asthma Review.
Cervical Smears
The nurse in the cervical smear clinic carries out routine smears by appointment. Letter will invite patients when their smear is due.
Non-NHS Services
Some services provided are not covered under our contract with the NHS and therefore attract charges. Examples include the following:
- Medicals for pre-employment, sports and driving requirements (HGV, PSV etc.)
- Insurance claim forms
- Passport signing
- Prescriptions for taking medication abroad
- Private sick notes
- Vaccination certificates
The fees charged are based on the British Medical Association (BMA) suggested scales and our reception staff will be happy to advise you about them along with appointment availability.
Travel Vaccines
If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.
There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below:
It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible – at least 6 weeks before you travel – as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.
Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.
Travel Health Questionnaire
To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.
Travel Questionnaire
You can also print this document and hand in at the reception at the surgery.
Travelling in Europe
If you are travelling to Europe a very useful booklet has been published with advice and guidance to help you get the most out of your holiday. To visit please click:- http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/86/en.pdf [Not Working] (this is a large document and may take a minute or two to view)
Telephone Triage
In an attempt to manage the ever increasing demand on our appointment system, the surgery is trialling a new telephone triage system which we hope will ease the pressure for our ‘on the day/urgent’ appointments.
When requesting a same day or urgent appointment, the reception staff will take some basic details from patients and arrange for the on call doctor to ring back to assess the problem further (within a 2 hour period). The GP will then discuss the matter and manage it accordingly.
This may include self-care advice, a prescription or a face to face review in surgery. Please be assured that if you need an appointment you will be offered one. The trial of the new system will begin in June on 1 or 2 days throughout the week over the summer months.
We would appreciate your feedback and any suggestions/comments about the new system.
Many thanks