Clinics & Services

We intend to continually grow and develop the services we offer to fully meet the needs of our patient population. Please feel free to speak to your clinician or to our reception staff about the services available to you.  The following list gives examples of the services that we offer:

• General consultations about any subject of concern to you
• Full range of child health services
• Maternity and ante-natal services
• Contraceptive services
• Childhood immunisations and preschool boosters
• Other vaccinations and immunisations such as influenza and pneumococcal immunisations

Chronic disease management clinics (such as diabetes/asthma/chronic heart disease)

• Smoking advice services
• Counselling
• Phlebotomy
• Cervical screening
• Healthy living advice
• Minor surgery

Other Services (for which fees may apply) include:  

• Travel vaccinations
• Sickness certificates
• Medical reports
• Insurance forms
• Holiday cancellation forms

Our fees are in line with national guidelines.

Travel Vaccinations

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within 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

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will 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 a least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

Travel Health Questionnaire

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

Travel Questionnaire

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)

The practice staff speak a number of languages and to help patients we have documented them below along with whether they are fluent or not.

This does not take away your right to have access to an interpreter but the practice felt that this may help some of our patients who do not have English as their first spoken language.

Dr Borhan: Farsi (fluent), Afghan and Arabic (some).

Dr Ahmed: Urdu (fluent).

Dr Adetunji: Yoruba (fluent) and Arabic (some).

Nurse John: Malayalam (fluent) and Hindi (some).

Valerie Herbert: French (understands and speaks broken French).

Julia Freezer: British Sign Language (some).

The new telephone number for booking Patient Transport Services is: 0800 096 0211.

The criteria for eligibility is set nationally and people who may qualify are those who:

1. May need assistance on route.

2. Are registered with a Kent & Medway GP.

3. Are going to or from an NHS appointment (not emergency or privately funded care) or home from a hospital stay.

4. Are going for physically demanding treatment such as dialysis.

5. Cannot use other forms of transport because of the ir medical or physcial condition.

For further information go to www.km-pts.co.uk/nhs.

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