| Family Planning & Sexual Health |
Our doctors and nurses provide a full range of contraceptive services,
including coil fitting and implants. We offer sexual health screening
and treatment with the help of local clinics. |
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| Cervical Smear Tests | The Health Authority runs a recall system and our nurses do most of the routine smears. |
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| Maternity Care | Our Doctors offer pre-conception counselling, ante-natal care and post-natal care, shared with local midwives. We will support requests for home births, but do not claim to be expert obstetricians ourselves. |
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| Child Health Surveillance |
We have baby clinics by appointment at the surgery to do eight-week checks. The
health visitors have a drop-in baby clinic on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons,1-3pm, at
Stormont clinic. . The Health Visitors offer practical support where needed for families with children up to five years old, and
offer the other routine developmental checks by appointment. |
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| Immunisations |
Routine children's immunisations are done in our surgery clinics and
routine adult immunisations are by appointment with our nurses.For information about children's immunisations, you can visit immunisation.org.uk, an evidence-based site. |
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Travel clinic | NEW TRAVEL CLINIC.
We now have an evening travel clinic by appointment from 6:30 to
8pm on Mondays. We offer a full range of travel vaccinations,
including yellow fever. First we want you to find out what travel
immunisations you need from the Fit For Travel
website. Do bring some cash or your cheque book as the NHS does not
support all travel immunisations. Please book at least four weeks before setting off, as you
may need a course of injections. |
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| Tests | ECGs,
24 hour Blood Pressure, Spirometry and Doppler ultrasound testing can be done by our practice nurses. Most
Blood Tests are done by our Healthcare assistant. |
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| Well Person Checks | Make an appointment with our nurse for a routine check-up, which may include lifestyle and dietary advice, and cholesterol measurement. |
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| Physiotherapy
and physical treatments |
We have a visiting NHS physiotherapist who can offer treatment for most
muscular or skeletal problems.
Click
here for more information about the local service. |
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| Diabetes Care | The practice runs a regular diabetic
programme for organised routine checkups for diabetics either attending the surgery alone, or sharing care with local hospitals.
We have a visiting diabetes nurse specialist, Lucy Chadder to help. |
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| Chest Disease Monitoring | Our nurses
and doctors offer checkups for chronic bronchitis and asthma patients and help with inhaled treatments.
They offer Spirometry to monitor chronic bronchitis and nebulisers for asthmatic emergencies.
Wendy Kong is the respiratory nurse specialist who can offer home visits. |
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| Dietician | We have a visiting dietician who can help patients with all of the common dietary problems, referred by our doctors or nurses. |
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| Minor Surgery | Doctor Kroll and Doctor Lucas offer Minor Surgery, dealing with small "lumps and bumps" under local anaesthetic, and joint injections. We can provide cryotherapy
(freezing with liquid nitrogen) for warts. |
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| Counselling | Julia Rickett and Denise
Clarke-Campbell,
our attached counsellors, can see patients with a variety of psychological
problems for a maximum of twelve one-hour sessions each. We wish we had much
more of their time! |
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| Addiction Counselling |
Claire Bown, our visiting addiction counsellor, can see patients with addictions to street drugs and prescribed painkillers and sedatives. He is available for one session a week. For alcohol problems, there is a local community alcohol team at St. John's Hill. Smokers are encouraged to
see Tina our Smoking counsellor. |
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| Private Consultations | For overseas visitors with non-urgent problems, private consultations may be arranged if not eligible for NHS care. |
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