The Surgery

SERVICES AVAILABLE TO PATIENTS

GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES

Essential Clinical Services

Routine and acute health problems, treatment and management including referring to Secondary Care (Hospitals) and/or other healthcare professionals as required.

Additional Clinical Services

Maternity services, vaccinations and immunisations, child health surveillance, national programme of cervical screening, routine minor surgery, routine contraceptive services.

Nationally Specified Enhanced Services

Childhood vaccination and immunisations, flu vaccinations for over 65s and other 'at risk' groups.

National Enhanced Services

(Intra-uterine coil device) fitting and minor injury treatment.

Additional Patient Requests

Newly registered patients, patients not seen in the past three years, and patients over 75, may request a specific consultation, when a general assessment of their health needs will be made.

CLINICS

The following clinics are available by appointment:

Antenatal Clinic (Midwife)

The Midwife is usually available Tuesday mornings 9.30 am to 12 noon by appointment only.

New Patient Appointment (Nurse)

All new patients are usually offered a general health check with a Nurse within three months of joining the surgery. This is usually arranged at the time of joining the Practice list.

Minor Surgery (Doctor and Nurse)

This is by special appointment with the Doctor.

Family Planning (Normal appointment With Doctor)

A full range of family planning services is provided during Surgery hours. Not all GPs fit IUCDs; please ask at Reception. It is normal for a consultation to be arranged with the respective Doctor prior to the fitting of an IUCD.

Baby And Child Clinic (including Child Health Surveillance)

Child health surveillance clinics are held at Coram Green on Monday and Wednesday 2.00 to 4.00pm. An additional clinic is provided on the third Saturday of the month from 10.00am to 12 noon, particularly for working parents.

Childhood immunisations are held at the surgery each Monday afternoon from 2.00 to 4.00pm.

Parents are reminded to bring in the child’s immunisation record book on each occasion a vaccination is required. Without this record the injection will not be given.

Diabetic Clinic

A Nurse-led clinic providing advice and help for patients with diabetes.

Asthma/Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease Clinic

A Nurse-led clinic providing advice and help for patients with asthma or COPD.

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)

A Nurse-led clinic providing help and advice for patients diagnosed with this condition.

Dietician Clinic

A clinic led by the Community Dietician on the first and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Referral to the clinic is via a GP.

Cervical Screening

Cervical smears are performed at the surgery as part of the nationwide screening programme for all eligible and appropriate women. Smears can identify warning signs of cancer around five to ten years before aggressive cancer develops; a smear is not looking for the cancer itself. Screening therefore reduces your chance of developing later cancer of the cervix.

Foreign Travel

Travel HealthUK will give up-to-date advice on health matters for travellers and will provide routine and specialist travel vaccines covered by the NHS. They also provide malaria tablets, non-NHS vaccines and travel health goods. Consultation is by appointment only and can be made by telephoning 01277 200169. An answerphone is active when the Clinic is closed.

Medical Certificates

If you are absent from work for three days or more because of illness, you need to complete form SC2 (or SC1 if you are self-employed). These are available from Reception. For absences of seven days or more, you need a certificate from your Doctor. These can only be issued if the Doctor has seen you on the same day or the previous day, or if you were recently seen by a hospital Doctor who has written to your GP. On many occasions an appointment is not necessary for this purpose; please enquire at Reception.

Occasionally, a special note can be issued if you are unable to work due to chronic illness and have recently been seen by a Doctor. Notes which are issued for reasons other than these are outside the NHS contract and a charge therefore is made.

Employment And Insurance Medicals

All non-NHS examinations should be arranged via the Receptionist, who will advise you of the fee payable.

Completion Of Claim Forms

Please allow at least 10 working days for completion of any reports or forms. This timescale may be extended if the Doctor is on holiday.