Ashfield Medical Centre - The clinics and other services offered by our doctors surgery

Clinics & Services

home_exam Your doctor may suggest you make an appointment for one of the following clinics:

Diabetes
Asthma
Coronary Prevention
Dietician
Minor Surgery - For removal of small skin lumps. Injections of elbows and HRT implants.
Family Planning - Advice on contraception is available in normal surgery hours. The doctors fit coils and implants when appropriate, but prior arrangement is needed.
Cervical Screening - This simple and painless test can detect early changes in the neck of the womb. This is performed by the practice nurse.
Chlamydia Screening - Please ask the nurse, reception or your GP for more information.

Nurse Clinics

The nurses carry out the full range of nursing procedures including immunisations, blood tests, dressings and cervical smears. They also take a major part in our health promotional clinics.

Health Care Clinics

Ante-natal and Booking Clinics (Community Midwife) by appointment only, arranged by the midwife.

Child Immunisations (Nurse, doctor available) Monday 14:00-15:30 and Wednesday 10:00 - 11:30.

By appointment only, sent from the Child Health Department. If your child has not been sent an appointment, please contact the surgery to make a routine nurse appointment.

8 Week Development Check/Post-natal (Doctor) Monday and Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 by appointment only.

District nurses

They are based at the Medical Centre and can be contacted personally from 09:00 - 09:30 or between 12:45 - 13:15, or a message may be left for them on (01908) 302960. Patients can refer themselves for the district nurses services, or a relative may phone on their behalf. District nurses have a lot to do, so please come to the surgery if you are able to. If you need any other information please ask the District nurses at the above times.

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 at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Most travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because travel vaccination is not included in the services provided by the NHS and therefore is a chargeable service.

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)

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Please be aware that the Winter Initiative that is currently being provided by Milton Keynes Urgent Care Service will no longer be available from the 1st of April 2012.

This service was commissioned for a period of 5 months from the 1st of November 2011 to provide a telephone based service offering clinical advice and local information to patients within Milton Keynes during core hours (08:00-18:30 Monday to Friday).

ASHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE & PATIENT PARTICIPATION GROUP (PPG)

PATIENT PARTICIPATION CONGRESS

ELECTION OF PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE

MK Commissioning is developing an engagement process to ensure patients can be involved in decision making.

To do this, they are introducing a group made up of elected representatives from each Practice which will be called the PPG Congress.

This group will work together to influence the commissioning process to meet the needs of patients through representation on the main Clinical Commissioning Board (CCB) and five specialist programme boards.

Ashfield Medical Centre is able to elect a representative to the Congress and all PPG/PRG (Patient Representative Group) members have the opportunity to stand for election and to vote.

The representative must declare any conflicts of interest, as they are being elected to serve their Practice and local population and not any other groups.

The representative will hold the post for two years.

The first meeting of the fully elected PPG Congress will take place in mid-February 2012 and representatives to the Congress need to be elected by Monday 6 February 2012.

If you wish to be considered for election, please Email sueward100@sky.comby 27 January 2012. Should there be more than one candidate, then an election will take place in the week commencing 30 January 2012.

For more information please contact:

Kim Foy-Olowu, (CCG Practice Manager Representative) – Kim.foy@mkpct.nhs.uk

Andrew Foster, Communications & Engagement Officer Andrew.foster@northants.nhs.uk or 01604 651160

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