Clinics We Offer
Asthma and Diabetes Patient Clinics
- Have longer appointments than normal surgeries to help us to monitor and manage your condition
Contraceptive Services
- You can consult either the doctors or nurses, completely confidential
- Includes “morning after” pill & contraceptive implants.
Cervical Smear
- For women aged 25 to 50 who have been sexually active, however long ago should be repeated every 3 years.
- 50 – 65 should be repeated every 5 years (providing that previous results were normal)
- You can consult either the doctors or nurses
These tests are for cancer of the cervix (neck of the womb). If you have tests every 3 years, it is unlikely that cervical cancer can develop to a stage where treatment will be unsuccessful.
Health Promotion
- For men and women
- Should be repeated every 5 years. Please make an appointment to see a nurse.
The “well person” consultation involves:
- Discussing your lifestyle
- Checking blood pressure
- Measuring your weight and height
Nurse Clinics
Our practice nurses are registered General Nurses (RGN) and they provide many services without need to refer to a doctor:
- Health, dietary & lifestyle advice
- Taking blood samples
- Checking blood pressure
- Routine immunisation and travel “jabs”
- Dressing of wounds and ulcers
- Removing surgical stitches
- Cervical smears
- Nurses will teach self breast examination
- Family planning advice
- New patient checks
- Elderly patient checks
- Home visits for the elderly
The following services are available in addition to medical consultations
- Advice about all types of contraception
- Cervical smears
- Health promotion (well persons)
- Immunisation – child and adult
- Immunisation – travel
- Asthma clinic
- Diabetes clinic
- Joints and soft tissue injections
- Mother & baby clinic