Clinics & Services

Minor surgery

This is arranged with the doctor.

Clinics

• We run diabetic & asthma clinics. Patients with these conditions are advised to book in with the practice nurse on a regular basis.
• We offer well person checks, menopause clinics, hypertension & heart disease clinics.
• We also offer health promotion counselling and clinics to deal with excess alcohol consumption and obesity.
• We can also help with stopping smoking by referring patients to a local smoking cessation service known as phoenix /smoke free clincs
• Advice on all forms of contraception and follow-up is available. Please ask your GP/Nurse

Childhood Immunisations

Immunisations are undertaken by the Practice Nurse. Please contact the surgery for appointments for childhood immunisations. If you wish to look at the schedule for immunisations please look at the Your Health on this website.

Antenatal Care

We offer full pregnancy and antenatal care in conjunction with the midwife and hospital. A clinic is held on Thursdays from 2pm to 5pm with appointments booked via reception. If you have a positive pregnancy test please book a midwife appointment as soon as possible emphasising it is a first appoinment.

Wart Clinics

There are no fixed times for the treatment of warts - please just make an appointment with Barbara one of our Practice Nurses. We have a permanent liquid nitrogen source for this treatment. It is not advisible to treat young children with this cryotherapy. Warts are a self limiting condition and normally disappear within 2 years.

Sexual Health

Branston surgery is committed to providing confidential health care advice to teenagers with regards to sexual health. If you have any queries with regards to this please contact the surgery and ask to speak in confidence with one of the Practice nurses or one of the GP’s.

Smears

The Primary care Trust invites all eligible patients every 3-5 years to undertake a smear. When you receive an invitation for a smear please contact the practice for an appointment with Linda or Barbara for this to be undertaken.

Blood samples

Blood clinics are now run Tuesday to Friday inclusive from 08:30 to 10:30. The practice has a phlebotomist who runs these clinics and you will need to contact the surgery with regards to booking an appointment for this clinic. If you have been given a blood form please bring it with you when you book in at reception on the day of your appointment.

Other Samples

Other services and special interests

We also offer

• physiotherapy
• ECG
• 24hr blood pressure monitoring.
• Travel Vaccinations

Non-NHS/Private Services

For items of services not covered by the NHS there will be a charge. These fees will be in line with the British Medical Association (BMA) recommended rates

We are frequently asked to fill in Insurance Forms. These claim forms cannot be filled in during a consultation and have to be done after essential routine work is finished. Please allow 3 to 4 weeks. There will be a charge for this service.

Travel Vaccinations

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
Caribbean	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

If you are travelling to Europe a very useful booklet has been published with advice and guidance to help you get the most out of your holiday.  To visit please click:- http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/86/en.pdf (this is a large document and may take a minute or two to view)

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