Clinics & Services

Family Planning

A comprehensive service is available by appointment with the doctors or practice nurses. The fitting of coils is done by special arrangement - please enquire. The 'morning after' pill is available by appointment with a doctor, and if required, this should be made clear to the reception team, to ensure a same day appointment.

Automated Blood Pressure checks

We have an automatic Blood Pressure machine so that our patients can check their blood pressure when they come to the surgery, either for an appointment or on an ad hoc basis.  Please take the printed slip in to your appointment with the doctor or nurse or give it to the receptionist who will ensure that it is entered on your records.  The machine is situated next to the reception desk.

If you have been rushing or feel breathless when you arrive, please sit down for a few minutes before using the machine. It is important to follow the instructions, as for instance the correct positioning of your arm in the machine is necessary for an accurate reading to be achieved.

Cervical Smears

We advise all women aged 25-65 to have regular smear tests, by appointment with the practice nurse or a doctor.

Minor Surgery

We carry out various procedures by appointment with a doctor.

Vaccinations & Immunisations

We recommend that your children are fully immunised against all the childhood diseases. Children's vaccinations are by appointment on Thursday afternoons with the Health Visitors.

For routine purposes, an appointment should be made with a practice nurse.

For travel purposes you need to complete a travel vaccination form and when the nurse has checked your requirements you will be asked to make an appointment with her. We are a registered Yellow Fever Centre, and can vaccinate travellers irrespective of whether they are registered with our practice. We also provide full travel health advice especially regarding prevention of malaria infection. 

The form can be collected from the reception desk or you can complete it online using this website. 

Health Checks

These are available by appointment with a nurse or health care assistant:

• Any patient needing advice or help with weight reduction, alcohol and smoking.
• Any patients with a positive family history of heart disease or stroke.

Child Health Surveillance

The doctors and health visitors carry out checks on Wednesday mornings.

Maternity Services

The midwife, doctors and health visitors provide maternity services on Wednesday mornings. On confirmation of pregnancy you will be provided with information on how the services will proceed. We do not offer intra partum care.

The Clinical Healthcare Team doctors

Six doctors run the practice in partnership. Three are full time and three are part time.

Practice nurses

We have 2 part time nurses who carry out health promotion, and run their own clinics for smears, asthma, diabetes and coronary heart disease. They also give advice on family planning and travel health.

Health Care Assistant

We have a part time HCA whose job encompasses taking blood pressure readings, blood tests, urine tests, assisting with coronary heart disease checks.

Phlebotomists

Our two part time phlebotomists takes blood samples as required by the doctors and nurses. 

Health Visitors

The health visitor can be contacted on 01253 953920, or by leaving a message at the surgery. She is based at St Annes Primary Care Centre on Durham Avenue, St Annes.

District Nursing Team

Patients who need to use this service should telephone the district nurses direct on 01253 657227.  They are based at Lytham Primary Care Centre. The district nurses can only provide home nursing services to the physically housebound, the chronically sick, the terminally ill and patients recovering from operations.

Counselling Service

Access to this service is by prior consultation and referral from your doctor.

 

Vaccinations

Annual Flu vaccinations

Flu kills many people worldwide every year. Each year commencing early October our flu campaign begins. The Department of Health recommends that all patients aged over 65 have this annual vaccination as a routine measure.

They also recommend the vaccination to anyone who has a medical history of heart disease, asthma or other chest problem, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, and those in long term care homes and carers in receipt of Carers Allowance, and other problems such as those who are immunocompromised.

Pregnant ladies are also advised to have the vaccination.

These are all known as "at risk" groups, and if you fit into one of the "at risk" groups you will receive a letter inviting you to make an appointment for the flu vaccination. If you do not receive a letter, then this is because the Department of Health does not consider that you require the vaccination. 

They are being quite strict about who we can vaccinate this year and we are to be monitored very carefully.

In our practice we vaccinate over 2700 patients each autumn, which helps to reduce the number of patients admitted to hospital with complications following flu infection.

When ringing for an appointment for the flu clinics, please ring in the afternoon.

Pneumonia vaccinations

This is another vaccination which is recommend for the over 65s and those with respiratory, heart or diabetes conditions. It cannot prevent all infection from pneumonia but it prevents infection from 26 different types. This vaccination is given only once - it is not an annual vaccination. Pneumovax is available all the year round by making an appointment with the practice nurse. In the cases of flu and pneumonia - prevention is better than cure every time.

Travel Advice

If you think you may require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to complete a travel enquiry form. This can be done online on this website or by collecting a form from the surgery. This will include which countries and the areas within those 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

 

When the nurse has determined your individual requirements you will be asked to make an appointment with her for the vaccinations and advice.

It is important to make your  initial enquiry as early as possible  - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as more than one appointment may 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.

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Travel Health Questionnaire

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

Travel Questionnaire

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Travelling in Europe

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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