Practice Nurse Services

The nurses offer a wide range of services including:

• Health Promotion Programmes Asthma, Diabetes and Blood pressure care
• Immunisation for foreign travel
• Flu injections
• Cervical smears
• Menopause advice
• Family planning advice
• Ear syringing
• Wound dressing and removal of stitches
• Minor Injuries: includes cuts, bruises, sprains, burns and minor head injuries.
• Yearly health checks for those over 75 years of age
• ECG tests requested by the doctors
• Triage(assessment of minor illnesses)
• Chronic Heart Disease follow up
• Child and Adult immunisation
  (Please note if you are bringing children for any immunisation and you are not the parent you will need written consent from the child’s legal guardian)

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

Medicals/Reports

Medical Reports requested by a solicitor or insurance company are not covered by the NHS and they therefore incur a private fee.  The fee is dependant upon the service requested.  It may be that the party requesting the information covers this fee, but from time to time the patient is liable to pay the fee.  For an up to date quote please contact the surgery or click the next tab across titled Private Charges.

Please note that if you do not attend for a private appointment or cancel less than 24 hours before the appointment you will be charged a fee. 

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Letters/Passport signing

If you need a passport photo verified the NHS does not cover this. It is at the doctor or nurses discretion whether they will perform this service for you, and there will be a fee for this.  For an up to date quote please contact the surgery.  There are some types of letter and/or signing that we will not undertake and a list is available on request. Any letters or reports that are requested and completed but not collected, will still incur the designated fee.