Sycamore House Medical Centre - The clinics and other services offered by our doctors surgery

Clinics and Services

General Medical Practice

Family Planning

We provide a full family planning service, apart from coil fitting which can be arranged at the family planning clinic.

Cervical Smears

In line with national policy, we recommend a cervical smear test every 3 years for a woman between the ages of 25 & 50 years, and every 5 years for women aged 51-65 years of age. These are usually carried out by the practice nurse.

Minor Surgery

We provide a limited minor injury service. This includes joint injections and cryosurgical removal of warts, verrucacae and other minor skin lesions.

Ante-Natal (mothers-to-be)

We provide full antenatal care for pregnant ladies. A midwife attands the surgery every Tuesday afternoon.

Child Health Clinic including Vaccinations

We provide full Child Health Surveillance in line with national & local guidelines. Health Visitors attend the surgery on Wednesday mornings and at at other times - enquire at reception.

Please bring your child's "Red Book" to all child health clinics.

Travel Vaccinations

These are availbale from the practice nurses. Click on the 'Travel Immunisations' tab (above) for more details.

Please note that some tavel vaccines are not available on the NHS and are provided only as a private service by the practice.

New Patient Examinations.

All new patients are required to have a basic health assessment by our nurse or Healthcare Assistant

Travel Immunisations

The practice no longer provides Yellow Fever vaccination. You may wish to approach the National Advice Centre website www.nathnac.org who can give advice on Yellow Fever and where you might obtain 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
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.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.

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Private Medical Reports, Examinations & Insurance

Insurance medicals, the completion of various forms, and the provison of letters for third parties are NOT covered by the NHS. We provide these services to our patients only on a private basis and they do attract a fee. Approximate charges are given below

Reports

Medical Sickness Reports, Holiday Cancellation, etc £25 - £50

Employment Reports £50 upwards

Full Medicals

(These are held outside of daily surgery times & must be specially arranged - please DO NOT book an appointment but disuss your requirement with the receptionist)

HGV £85

Insurance Medicals £100

Miscellaneous

Private Sick Notes & Prescriptions £12

Passport application endorsments £25

Letters - £25 upwards

We do not provide letters for housing associations. We have been advised that their own doctors will assess you if necessary and that letters from ourselves are not considered.

Test Results

tests_and_results Please call between 11am and 1pm to enquire about your test results, as our reception staff will have more time to deal with your request between these times.

Note that the practice has a strict policy regarding confidentiality and data protection and we will only release test results to the person to whom they relate unless that person has given prior permission for the release of this data or they are not capable of understanding the results.

When you have your test you will be told approximately how long it will be before the results are returned to the practice. Please ring the practice to see if your results are back. AIthough we will endeavour to contact you if an urgent problem is detected, it is your responsibility to check your results and to make an appointment to discuss them with your doctor if you are advised to do so. We process far too many tests each day to be able to contact everyone about their individual result.

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