Minor surgery & cryotherapy 

All the doctors perform minor surgery and cryotherapy by special appointment.

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Diabetes, heart disease and respiratory disease

Our highly trained nurses run weekly clinics to help patients with these conditions to take control of their illnesses and prevent future complications.  You will be asked to attend for a review at least once a year, depending on your circumstances.

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Children’s clinics & mums-to-be 

Health Visitors Michelle Jones, Nicky Underwood, Dawn Lowe, Frances Bland and team see young children at a ‘drop-in’ well baby clinic on Mondays from 1300 - 1430hrs. No appointment is required. Please phone them if you wish to be seen at another time on 01205 366014.

The health visitors run a child health clinic on Mondays 1300-1430hrs and we offer an childhood immunisation clinic on Wednesday mornings.  Please do not bring ill children to these clinics. 

Our midwife Kim Walker sees pregnant and post-natal patients on Mondays. 

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Practice nurses

Our nurses are available by appointment for

• Cervical smear tests
• Osteoporosis & menopause advice
• Weight & dietary advice
• Stop smoking help
• Stress reduction advice
• Travel and other vaccinations
• Contraception
• Young persons' advice

Our Health Care Support Workers, Tammy Atkinson and Maggie Porter see patients for

• Blood pressure & cholesterol monitoring
• New patient registration checks
• NHS health checks

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Reports, examinations & certificates

Examinations for insurers, solicitors, the DVLA etc can be arranged by special appointment. The party requesting the medical will advise if a fee is payable by you.

Occupational health

If your employer requires you to have certain vaccinations, particularly Hepatitis B, for your job, but is unable to provide the vaccinations themselves, we may be able to enter into a contract with your employer to provide this for you.  We will need the signed contract and payment before we are able to do the vaccinations.  Please ask at reception for details.

At two months old:

• Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) (DTaP/IPV/Hib) - one injection
• Pneumococcal infection - pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) - one injection

At three months old:

• Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) (DTaP/IPV/Hib) - one injection
• Meningitis C (meningococcal group C) (MenC) - one injection

At four months old:

• Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) (DTaP/IPV/Hib) - one injection
• Meningitis C (meningococcal group C) (MenC) - one injection
• Pneumococcal infection - pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) - one injection

At around 12 months old:

• Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and meningitis C (Hib/MenC) - booster dose in one injection

At around 13 months old:

• Measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) (MMR) - one injection
• Pneumococcal infection - pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) - one injection

Three years four months to five years old (pre-school):

• Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and polio (dTaP/IPV or DTaP/IPV) - one injection
• Measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) (MMR) - one injection

13 to 18 years old:

• Diphtheria, tetanus and polio (Td/IPV) - one injection

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
Carribean	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.

Most travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge.  This is because travel vaccination is not included in the services provided by the NHS and therefore is a chargeable service.

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

Travel Questionnaire

We offer all patients aged between 40-74 a free health check every five years.

At the check we will take your family medical history, check basic data such as your height, weight, blood pressure and pulse, offer any advice about smoking and weight loss if appropriate and do a simple blood test to check your cholesterol.

The purpose of the health check is to catch any early signs of cardiovascular disease, so that we can help prevent it.

We will contact patients when they are due to have the test and strongly recommend that all patients take advantage of this free check.