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Services Available
Practice Based Clinics
Physiotherapy: A physiotherapist visits the surgery on a Thursday. Once your GP has made a referral, the clinic administrator will contact you with an offer of an appointment.
Chronic Disease: If you have diagnosed coronary heart disease, hypertension or diabetes, you will be contacted by the surgery with an offer of an appointment when your review is due. If you are at all worried about your existing condition before your review is due, or think you have one of these conditions that is undiagnosed, please do not hesitate to contact the surgery.
Child Immunisations: Please book an appointment with one of the practice nurses in the usual way.
Baby Clinic: The health visitor visits fortnightly on Wednesdays from 1.30pm – 2.30pm. This is a drop-in session.
Midwife: The midwife attends the surgery each week on a Wednesday afternoon. Appointments can be made in advance via reception.
Drug & Alcohol Counselling: This session occurs fortnightly on a Friday afternoon. Your GP will refer you and book the initial appointment. Subsequent appointments are booked by the Counsellor.
Who does what?
Nurse appointments are available for immunisations (including childhood and yellow fever), cervical smears, pill checks, emergency contraception, foreign travel advice (20 min appt), minor injuries/dressings, ear syringing, asthma and general information regarding diet and weight control.
Healthcare Assistant (HCA) appointments can be used for new patient healthchecks (nphc) and, after consultation with a GP, blood pressure checks (BP) and ECGs. The practice nurses are also able to carry out these procedures, however we would ask patients to see the HCA wherever possible. This allows the majority of nursing appointments to be used for procedures, which the healthcare assistant is unable to carry out.
Phlebotomist appointments are for blood tests only.
Services your GP can provide at the surgery include maternity care (usually care is jointly provided by your GP, community midwife and the Rosie maternity hospital), family planning and child development (in conjunction with the health visitor).
District nurses are attached to the surgery. A messaging service is available via reception.
Child and family services (including health visitors) are based at York Street surgery, and can be contacted on (01223) 222020.
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