Services

All GP practices are contracted to provide “essential services”, that is, basic treatment of ill people.

We also provide the following “additional services”:

• Child health surveillance, together with the Health Visiting team.
• Contraceptive services.
• Maternity services in the ante natal and post natal period, together with the midwives from the Queen Mother’s Hospital.
• Routine immunisation of children, together with the Health Visiting team.
• Immunisation for adults in relation to travel. (Not all travel immunisations are available on the NHS, please ask our practice nurse for details).
• Cervical smears .
• Freezing of warts and other small skin lesions.

• An annual flu immunisation programme to protect the elderly and those at risk.
• Regular monitoring, by blood and urine tests, for patients on a range of drugs for arthritis and bowel problems.
• Annual comprehensive reviews for patients with heart disease.
• Annual comprehensive review for patients with diabetes; this includes appointments with the dietician and podiatrist.
• Annual comprehensive review of patients who have had a stroke.
• A methadone substitution programme for patients with drug abuse problems.
• Insertion of IUCDs for contraception

Vaccination Schedule

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

Travel Advice

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please see Elaine/Suzanne ideally – 8 weeks before travel so that we can make up your vaccination schedule.

It would be helpful if you could fill out our Travel Assessment Form so that we can be properly prepared for your visit.

Note that some Malarial Tablets can be purchased from a pharmacy while others require a private prescription and may incur costs.

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.