Services Available(NHS)
Core Services
General management of medical conditions such as Hypertension, Diabetes,etc
Health promotion and advice
- Emergency care of medical conditions (as appropriate)
- Referral to other services (as deemed necessary)
- Urgently required care for temporary residents
Additional services
- Cervical screening
- Contraceptive services
- Childhood vaccinations and immunisations/ Travel Health
- Child health surveillance
- Maternity services
- Minor surgery
Enhanced Services
- Anticoagulation service & near-patient testing is currently being assessed and may be available in future
- Asthma Clinic
- Diabetes Clinic
- COPD Clinic
- Smoking Cessation Clinic
Non-NHS Services
The NHS does not pay for some of the services we provide. These include private sick notes, insurance forms, holiday cancellation forms, medical reports, fitness to travel certificates, private prescriptions, passport-signing and some vaccination services. Our fees for these services, which are in line with BMA approved national guidelines, are displayed in the surgery. If you require any service in these areas and are not entirely sure, simply ask the the reception or speak to the Medical Secretary. We are not duty-bound to provide some of these services ( for example, the signing of passports ).
Here is a list of some commonly encountered requests:
- Insurance medicals
- Mortgage company / loan company medicals
- Adoption / foster medicals
- Benefits Agency medical examinations
- Taxi driver medicals
- HGV / PSV driver medicals for the DVLA
- Private employment medicals
- Boxing medicals
- Lifeboat service medicals
- Medicals at the request of solicitors