Travel Vaccinations for Registered Patients

If you require vaccinations relating to foreign travel and you are registered at the surgery, you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements.

Please try to make this appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - we cannot guarantee an appointment if you leave vaccinations to the last minute.

We give the travel vaccines that are available on the NHS and these are:-

• Tetanus
• Polio
• Diptheria
• Hepatitis A
• Typhoid

We also can give the following vaccines on request at a charge  - please discuss with our practice nurse

• Yellow Fever - £60
• Hepatitis B - course of 3 injections    £25 per injection
• Meninigitis ACWY  -   £40
• Rabies - course of 3 injections     £55 per injection     
• Please note we offer these services to registered patients only and currently can only accept cash as payment. 
• Prices correct as of 12/08/2019

Follow the links below to check if you need any further vaccines than the ones we give.

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Caribbean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

 If you do require further immunisations and malarial cover, please visit your local travel clinic.

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)

Clinics & Services

In addition to general medical services we also provide:-

• Asthma clinic
• COPD clinic
• Contraceptive service
• Coronary Heart Disease Clinic
• ECG
• 24 hour blood pressure monitoring
• Hypertension Clinic
• Maternity Service 
• Phlebotomy (blood taking) clinics
• Specialist Diabetes Nurse Clinic
• Specialist Dietician 
• Stop smoking clinic
• Warfarin Monitoring

If you would like to access any of the above services, please discuss with your GP.

The practice is committed to encouraging patients to stop smoking , please ask at the reception desk if you would like more details.

Recall system for chronic health problems 

We operate a recall system for patients with chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and asthma. If you are under a recall system we will invite you to the practice so that we can regularly monitor your health. A flu campaign recall system is run annually for those patients who are in the “at risk” groups. Please do respond to these requests so that appointments times are not wasted. If you have any queries regarding these appointments ask to speak to the office administrator.  

Flu Vaccination

PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST FLU !!   IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OCTOBER 2018

The Department of Health recommends flu vaccination if you are:-

• Pregnant
• Aged 65 or over
• A person with diabetes
• A person with a BMI over 40
• A carer

Or if you have a long term condition of the:-

• Lungs, e.g asthma or COPD
• Heart
• Brain or nervous system
• Kidneys
• Liver
• Immune system
• Spleen

This year there are 2 different injectable flu vaccinations – one that is recommended for those over the age of 65 and one for those under the age of 65 with a risk factor.

There is a national problem with the delivery of the over 65 flu vaccine and our stocks will vary over the flu season.

Children at risk or those aged 2 and 3 can be given the intranasal flu - please make an appointment with our nurse.

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Whooping Cough Vaccine

Whooping cough vaccine is available for all expectant mothers from 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Please make an appointment with our practice nurse or ask your GP to give it to you at your first antenatal appointment that falls after 20 weeks.

Please speak to your midwife or GP at your next antenatal visit for further information.

MMR Vaccine

If you are under the age of 36 years and you did not receive 2 doses of MMR, you can now protect yourself against measles, mumps and rubella. Please make an appointment with our practice nurse for your vaccination.

Shingles Vaccine

All people aged 70, 78 or 79  are entitled to receive a vaccination against shingles.

This is part of the new national shingles immunisation programme introduced by the Department of Health to help protect those most at risk from shingles and its complications.

Other age groups wil be introduced in future years to ensure all people aged 70 to 79 are offered vaccination against shingles.

Meningitis ACWY Vaccine

If you are under 25 and are thinking of going to college or university, you are entitled to receive a vaccination against Meningitis ACWY. Please contact reception to make an appointment with our practice nurse.