| We currently provide: | Family Planning Clinics |
| HRT Clinics | |
| Maternity Services | |
| Asthma Clinics | |
| Minor Surgery (please see a doctor first to check your problem is suitable for our service) | |
| Smoking Cessation | |
| Child Health Surveillance | |
| Childhood Immunisations | |
Travel Vaccinations
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| HGV and other medical examinations (these are private services for which a fee is payable) | |
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This is a fairly new scheme that has been introduced by the PCT (Primary Care Trust) which is in operation at Pharmacies. It allows patients improved access to treatment for minor ailments. At the moment there are six conditions covered by the scheme, but more conditions may be added to the list as the scheme progresses. The conditions currently covered are:
There are leaflets available in the waiting room and at your local Pharmacy explaining more about the scheme. All consultations are free of charge and are treated in strict confidence, just as they are by your GP and Nurse. If you are exempt from prescription payments you will still receive your medicines as before and if you are not, normal rules apply. The benefits for you are direct access with a health professional, normally within a few minutes, which avoids waiting for a GP appointment. It also has benefit for the GP practice, by freeing up minor ailment appointments; the practice then has more appointments to deal with more medically urgent cases. |
Chaperones
Oaklands Medical Centre operates a chaperone policy and all patients are free to request a chaperone who should be a trained clinician. However, if a clinician is unavailable to chaperone at the time of your appointment, your GP or nurse will offer you the choice of either having a non-clinical chaperone (i.e- a receptionist) or making another appointment.
Non-NHS paperwork.
It is important to understand that the completion by doctors of forms/reports is NOT core NHS work i.e. it is PRIVATE work undertaken by your GP's in their own time and not their usual surgery NHS time. Please try to be patient - NHS work does and must always take priority over private work.
Forms or reports such as Private medical insurance
claims, holiday cancellations, sickness or accident reports etc. These forms
should be brought or sent to the surgery. It will then be given to your doctor
for completion. There will be a charge for this, payable on collection of the
completed form.
Insurance forms. These are reports compiled from your medical records for purposes such as life assurance, mortgages etc. These forms may appear to take some time to complete, as it is not uncommon for it to take up to one month between you signing the consent form/request for information and the surgery receiving the documentation. Further delays can occur if a doctor is on holiday. Please be patient.