NEW PATIENTS HEALTH CHECKS
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 09:15 -12:30 and 2.30 pm - 5.30 pm
All new patients registering with the practice are offered a health check - blood pressure, weight, height, urinalysis, blood glucose, blood cholesterol.
FAMILY PLANNING AND CYTOLOGY CLINIC (fortnightly)
Wednesday 9.15 - 12 noon - Dr Freeha Ali
IUCD fitting can be done at these clinics as well as cervical smear tests, family planning consultations and pill check.
MATERNITY CLINICS (antenatal)
Tuesday 9.00 - 11.30am
The morning session is the midwife's antenatal clinic. A GP attends for every other afternoon session to advise on antenatal/postnatal care.
IMMUNISATION AND VACCINATION CLINIC
Monday 9.15am - 12.30pm
Baby immunisation - Practice Nurse
CHILD HEALTH SURVEILLANCE CLINIC (fortnightly)
Wednesday 9.15am - 12 noon - Dr Freeha Ali
DIABETIC CLINIC
Wednesday 9.15am - 12.30pm - Practice Nurse
Health education; blood glucose monitoring; dietary advice.
Clinic liaises with community dietician and chiropodist services.
ASTHMA & COPD CLINIC - ADULTS AND CHILDREN
Friday 9.15am - 12.30pm - Practice Nurse
Health education; inhaler technique demonstration; peak-flow recordings
MINOR SURGERY
Wednesday 9.15 -12.30pm - Dr Akingbala and Practice Nurse
GMS CLINIC AND AND GENERAL HEALTH CHECK - Practice Nurse/HCA
Monday 2.00 - 5.30pm
Tuesday 9.15am - 12.30 pm and 2.00 -5.30 pm
Wednesday 9.15am - 12.30 noon and 2.00 - 5.30pm
Thursday 9.15am -12.30 pm and 2.00 - 5.30pm
Friday 9.15am -12.30 pm and 2.00 - 5.30pm
PRIVATE MEDICAL SERVICES
Some services fall outside the NHS and for these a charge may be made. These include BUPA/PPP forms, private medical certificates and various special examinations for sports, school, employment, driving etc. A full list of these services is displayed in the surgery together with the current prices, as recommended by the British Medical Association.
SPECIAL CLINICS PROVIDED
| Monday | 9.15am - 12.30pm | Immunisation Clinic |
2.30 - 5.30pm | GMS Clinic and General Health Check |
| Tuesday | 9.15am - 12.30pm | General Check |
9.00 - 11.00am | Antenatal Clinic |
2.30 - 5.30pm | New Patients' Health and General Check |
| Wednesday | 9.15am - 12 noon | Minor Surgery & General Health Check |
2.00 - 5.30pm | General Health Check |
9.15am - 12 noon | Gynae Clinic (fortnightly) |
9.15am - 12 noon | Child Health Surveillance (fortnightly) |
| Thursday | 9.15am - 12.30pm | Diabetic Clinic |
2.00 - 5.30pm | GMS Clinic and General Health Check |
| Friday | 9.15am - 12.30pm | Asthma Clinic |
2.00 - 5.30pm | GMS Clinic and General Health Check |
Extended Opening Hours
Mondays & Tuesdays 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm (bookable appointments only)
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD
DIPHTHERIA, TETANUS, WHOOPING COUGH, POLIO, HiB (DTaP/IPV/Hib)
When your baby is two months old, you will be asked to bring them for their first DTaP/IPV/Hib injection against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and polio.
They will also be offered the Meningitis C vaccine which can be given at the same time.
They will then be asked to come back for another two doses of both DTaP/IPV/Hib and Men C when they are three and four months old.
MEASLES, MUMPS, RUBELLA
The vaccines which immunise against measles, mumps and rubella are also combined into one injection. The combined vaccine is known as MMR and it replaced the measles vaccine in 1988. The best time to have it is between 12 and 15 months, but it can be given at any later age. Even if you think your child has already had one of these diseases or the measles-only vaccine, your child should still have the MMR vaccine.
YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR CHILD EARLIER THAN EVER USING THE STANDARD TIMETABLE
Although babies have some natural immunity, whether bottle or breast fed, it only lasts a short time and diseases like whooping cough are most dangerous in the very youngest children. There are more deaths in the younger ones from this disease than all other age groups combined, so early protection is important. The timetable (see below) also means that the immunisations can be completed while your child is visiting the clinic/doctor regularly and before you go back to work. It is a timetable that everyone can remember, the same across the country.
WHEN TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD
| AT BIRTH | TB vaccination |
| AT 2 MONTHS | Hib
Diphtheria
Whooping
Cough
Tetanus
Polio | DTaP/IPV/HiB
one injection |
| Meningitis C | one injection |
| AT 3 MONTHS | Hib
Diphtheria
Whooping
Cough
Tetanus
Polio | DTaP/IPV/HiB
one injection |
| Meningitis C | one injection |
| AT 4 MONTHS | Hib
Diphtheria
Whooping
Cough
Tetanus
Polio | DTaP/IPV/HiB
one injection |
| Meningitis C | one injection |
AT 12-18 MONTHS
(usually before 15 months) | Measles
Mumps
Rubella | MMR one injection |
| 1-4 YEARS | Supplementary Hib |
3-5 YEARS
(around school entry) | Diphtheria
Tetanus | booster injections |
| Polio | booster by mouth |
| MMR II |
GIRLS
10-14 YEARS | Rubella | one injection |
GIRLS/BOYS
13 YEARS | Tuberculosis | one injection (BCG)
even if had it at birth |
| SCHOOL LEAVERS | Tetanus | one injection |
| 15-19 YEARS | Polio | booster by mouth |
If your child has missed any of these immunisations, or started them late, please notify us quickly so that your child can have the earliest opportunity of being immunised. Your doctor will tell you how to fit them in so that your child is fully protected.