Clinics
Services Available From The Practice
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. Specialist services such as IUCD insertion are
available.
- Maternity services in the antenatal and postnatal period, together with the
midwives from the Queen Mother's Hospital.
- Routine immunisation of children.
- 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.
We also hold contracts with GGNHSB for the following 'enhanced services':
- An annual flu immunisation programme to protect the elderly and those at risk
- Regular monitoring, by blood and urine tests, of patients on a range of
drugs for arthritis and bowel problems
- Comprehensive reviews for patients with heart disease, diabetes, stroke,
multiple sclerosis
- Minor surgery
- Insertion of IUCDs and contraceptive implants
