The NHS vaccination schedule
Checklist of the vaccines offered to everyone in the UK for free on the NHS
If you’re not sure whether you or your child have had all your routine vaccinations, ask your GP or practice nurse to find out for you. It may be possible to ‘catch up’ later in life.
Try to make sure you or your child have vaccinations delivered on time to ensure protection.
If you’re going to be away from the GP surgery when a vaccination is due, talk to your doctor. It may be possible to arrange for vaccination at a different location.
Travel Immunisations and Advice
Unfortunately we are unable to offer a Travel Immunisations and Advice service. For further information please see:
Medical Examinations (Non NHS)
Certain services provided by the Doctors are not covered by the NHS and fees are payable. Examples include:
- Large Good Vehicle (LGV) & Passenger Service Vehicle (PSV) licences
- Elderly driver licences
- Preemployment medicals
- Private certificates
- 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 available from reception.
If you currently smoke and would like help to stop then please contact Stop Smoking South Tees for further information.
Our Practice Nurses are available by appointment for the following:
- Minor injuries and dressings
- Contraceptive advice and pill checks
- Cervical smears
- Smoking cessation advice. Our nurses can help and support you.
- Chronic conditions. Our nurses offer monitoring checks and advice for a variety of chronic conditions including diabetes, asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart disease.
Our Healthcare Assistants provide the following:
- Blood tests, Blood Pressure monitoring, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), dressings and basic health checks as well as providing support for the practice nurses and doctors as required.
- Administer and offer various injections and can also offer support with smoking cessation and weight management.
The Aims of the Nurse Practitioner Service are:
- To provide a “same day” appointment.
- More choice for patient’s thus increasing patient satisfaction.
- Ensures patients receive appropriate access to treatment.
General Information:
- Our nurse practitioners are able to diagnose and prescribe.
We support the local cervical smear screening programme and recommend that all women between the ages of 25 to 65 attend for screening. This test can be performed by our practice nurse, or at a local family planning clinic.
What is cervical screening?
Patients who find it difficult to get an appointment at the practice because of work, appointments are available out of hours at STAR or a family planning clinic.
We strongly advise immunisation for all children. If in doubt, please ask your health visitor or doctor about this.
The community midwife is based in our practice building and has regular clinics to book patients for care and to perform regular antenatal care. We recommend that you book with the midwife as early as possible in your pregnancy. She will check your bloods and arrange your scans which usually take place at 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy. Telephone our reception on 01287 650430 to make an appointment with the midwife.
