What’s on offer?

The Surgery provides the following services for all registered patients: 

Easy access to healthcare

• Bookable appointments at a range of times
• Healthcare clinics in local community venues 

Help staying healthy

• Advice on preventing illness
• Advice on managing a long-term health condition
• Cervical screening (smear tests)
• Contraceptive services (emergency and routine)
• Childhood immunisations
• Travel vaccinations and advice 

Specialist services

• Womens’ health
• Mens’ health
• Child health
• Cardiovascular care including:
  -       anticoagulant dosing
  -       ischaemic heart disease screening, prevention and management
  -       other circulatory disease screening, prevention and management
• Treatment for minor injuries and illnesses including wounds, cuts, bruises, sprains, strains and minor burns.
• Pregnancy testing
• Antenatal (pregnancy) care
• Smoking cessation service
• Diabetes clinic
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinic
• Asthma clinic
• Chronic kidney disease monitoring
• Palliative (end of life) care
• Health screening
• Cholesterol and blood sugar testing
• Blood pressure checks

Non-NHS Medical Examinations

The doctors carry out medical examinations e.g. for driving licence, insurance, sports etc. Please note there is sometimes a charge for this service. Please ask at reception for further information.

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Sickness Certificates

You should complete a self-certification form (SC2, available from reception or from your employer) for any illness lasting less than seven days.

We can only provide NHS certificates for illnesses causing absence from work for 7 days or more.

If an employer requests a certificate for an illness lasting less than seven days, a private certificate can be issued, for which a fee is payable.

NHS sickness certificates are only to be used in connection with sickness absence from work.

Sickness certification for all other purposes will require a private certificate or statement.

Travel Vaccinations

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

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Caribbean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

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.

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Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.

Travel Questionnaire

Routine childhood immunisations 

When to immunise	Diseases protected against	Vaccine given	Site**
Two months old	Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)	DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel)	Thigh
	Pneumococcal disease	PCV (Prevenar 13)	Thigh
	Rotavirus	Rotavirus (Rotarix)	By mouth
Three months old	Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib	DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel)	Thigh
	Meningococcal group C disease (MenC)	Men C (NeisVac-C or Menjugate)	Thigh
	Rotavirus	Rotavirus (Rotarix)	By mouth
Four months old	Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib	DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel)	Thigh
	Pneumococcal disease	PCV (Prevenar 13)	Thigh
Between 12 and 13 months old – within a month of the first birthday	Hib/MenC	Hib/MenC (Menitorix)	Upper arm/thigh
	Pneumococcal disease	PCV (Prevenar 13)	Upper arm/thigh
	Measles, mumpsand rubella (German measles)	MMR(Priorix or MMR VaxPRO)	Upper arm/thigh
Three years four months old or soon after	Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussisand polio	dTaP/IPV (Repevax) or DTaP/IPV(Infanrix-IPV)	Upper arm
	Measles, mumpsand rubella	MMR (Priorix or MMR VaxPRO)(check first dose has been given)	Upper arm
Girls aged 12 to 13 years old	Cervical cancer caused by humanpapillomavirus types 16 and 18 (andgenital warts caused by types 6 and 11)	HPV (Gardasil)	Upper arm
Around 14 years old	Tetanus, diphtheria and polio	Td/IPV (Revaxis), and check MMRstatus	Upper arm
	Meningitis C	(Meningitec, Menjugate or NeisVac-C)	Upper arm

 

Please note

** Where two or more injections are required at once, these should ideally be given in different limbs. Where this is not possible, injections in the same limb should be given 2.5cm apart.

The Meningitis C vaccination will be introduced during the 2013/14 academic year and the vaccine supplied will depend on the brands available at the time of ordering

Immunisations for at-risk children 

When to immunise	Diseases protected against	Vaccine given	Site
At birth, 1 month old, 2 months old and 12 months old	Hepatitis B	Hep B	Thigh
At birth	Tuberculosis	BCG	Upper arm (intradermal)

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