Medical Examinations (Non NHS)

Certain services provided by the Doctors are not covered by the NHS and fees are payable for such items as:

• Large Good Vehicle (LGV) and Passenger Service Vehicle (PSV) licences
• Elderly driver licences       
• Insurance
• Preemployment medicals
• Private certificates
• Holiday vaccinations
• Insurance claims
• Fitness for sports

Please ask the receptionist for such services. Charges are payable at the time of attendance, and the British Medical Asssociation (BMA) recommended scale of fees is on display at the reception desk. For further information please see Why does my doctor charge fees?

A current list of fees is provided below. If you have any queries regarding these please enquire at Reception.

Medical Certificates

Self certification notes are available from your employer for sickness of up to one week. Any certificate required from the Doctor for periods up to the first week can only be provided as a private certificate for which there is a charge.

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Current List of Medical Fees

Private Patients

We will treat patients on a private basis. However, the following charges will apply:

• Private consultation from £35
• Medication from £35

The doctors, practice nurses or health visitors will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Fees for non NHS Services

Certificates
Private sick note	£15.00
Photograph Identification	£25.00
Reports
Provident Association claim form (eg BUPA and PPP)	£20.00
Sickness and Accident insurance benefit claim form	£20.00
Employers’ report and opinion with or without examination	£66.00
Copies of reports for patients under access to Health Records Act 1990	up to a maximum of £50
Access to records under Data Protection Act	up to £10.00
Medical examinations
Fee for medical consultation, private patient per hour	£132.00
LVG, PGV, taxi driver examination with or without full medical	£80.00 to £100

Many childhood illnesses (such as mumps, measles and polio) are easily prevented through vaccinations. We have a full range of vaccinations available at this surgery, and we will be inviting you to bring your child along.

You should make sure that your child completes the full course of immunisations to protect them from unnecessary illness.

We offer most of our Travel Vaccines free to our patients unless you have been registered less than one month.

However, there is a charge for yellow fever and some other vaccinations. We do not offer rabies and Japanese encephalitis vaccinations at this surgery. You can buy anti malarial medication over the counter at a pharmacist, or we will give you a private prescription.

The doctors, practice nurse or health visitor will happily answer any queries you may have about immunisation and vaccination.

For free and confidential sexual health services including test kits please visit the Sexual Health London website.

The practice is actively engaged in health promotion.

In particular we can arrange primary prevention, for example, advice on smoking, diet and exercise and immunisations both adult and childhood; screening, e.g., blood pressure checks, cholesterol estimations, cervical smears, travel advice and vaccines etc.

If you would like to discuss any of these please see one of our nurses.

Practice Nurses

Our Practice Nurse offers the following services:

• Maternity Care (including antenatal, postnatal care and baby care)
• Chronic Disease Checks
• Diabetes
• Asthma
• Chronic Heart Disease
• First aid advice, Blood and Urine Tests, Dressings, removal of stitches etc
• Ear syringing
• Adult and Childhood Immunisations
• Travel Immunisations
• Stopping Smoking
• Cervical Smears and Contraception Services
• Family Planning
• Health Promotion for example, dietary advice and advice on smoking
• Advice on Diet
• Post Natal Exams
• Spirometry (lung function tests)
• New Patient Screening

Our nursing services are provided by routine prebookable appointments only.

Please contact reception to book your appointment.

Other available services include:

• Minor surgery
• Chiropody
• Baby milk (to buy)
• Enuresis (bed-wetting) clinic
• School nursing
• Speech and language therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Dietetics
• Money advice
• Medication review
• Electrocardiogram (ECG) heart monitoring

First contact physiotherapists and osteopath

If you have any of following conditions please book an appointment with our reception team without the need to speak to a GP or Nurse.

• Back pain, Neck pain
• Shoulder pain, Knee pain, Ankle pain, Elbow, Wrist pain (over 16 year olds only)
• Any muscle injury strain, sprain tears
• After joint surgery eg knee or hip replacement, shoulder surgery
• Sciatica
• Arthritis in any joints
• All sports injuries

Appointments can be booked via our reception directly into a local service.

Also see Physiotherapy Self Management for further help.

Midwives (based at St Thomas’ Hospital) work from our health centre. Their role is to help expectant mothers with all aspects of health care during and after their pregnancy. We run a shared care scheme between your own GP and a consultant obstetrician from St Thomas’ Hospital.

We hold antenatal and postnatal clinics at the health centre and there is an appointment system. Please phone 020 3049 4002.

Medication reviews are carried out at the surgery at regular intervals. If you are informed that you need a medication review then please speak to the receptionist to make an appointment.

Health visitors work mainly with families and focus on expectant mothers and children under five years old.

Their role includes health promotion, health education, developmental clinics, pre school immunisations, advice and support. The health visitors work in your home and in the health centre.

You can contact the health visitors on 020 3049 4005 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

We also offer checks on your baby’s development, by appointment. There is also a mother and baby group. For details, please contact the health visitors direct.