Baby Clinic

Health Visitors 

If you have any concerns re your baby or child please contact the Health Visitors on 0207 683 4753.

More information on services available by the Health Visiting Service can be found here:  https://www.hackneyandcityhealthvisiting.nhs.uk

• Your child's journey from birth to five

   Resource created by Hackney Learning Trust to support Parents journey into Parenting from Birth to Five years https://www.learningtrust.co.uk/content/your-childs-journey-birth-five
• Birth to Five Years

Travel Information 

Travel health

Before travelling, we advise you to take some time to make preparations with regard to your health while you are abroad.

A good place to start is the Travel Health Pro website http://travelhealthpro.org.uk/general-advice-for-travellers/ which contains helpful information on what to do before, during and after your trip.

If you require travel vaccinations or malaria tablets, please try to make an appointment with a practice nurse at least four to six weeks prior to travelling. When making the appointment, you will be asked to fill in a questionnaire about where and when you are travelling. You can find this here or pick one up from our reception.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and 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.

Alternatively, you can visit a local travel health clinic (please see below).

Useful information

Travel Health Pro http://travelhealthpro.org.uk/general-advice-for-travellers/

Fit for Travel http://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/home.aspx

Bit avoidance advice http://www.bug-off.org/bite-sized-facts/

Alternative providers of travel health

Benjamin Chemist

Opening hours: Mon – Sat 9.00-18.00

190 Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 7JD, 0207 254 2696

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

Department of Travel Medicine and Travel Clinic

Opening hours: Mon, Tues, Thu, Fri 9.00-16.30; Wed 10.00-16.30

Appointments: 0207 388 9600

Located at: Mortimer Market, Capper Street (off Tottenham Court Road), London, WC1E 6JB

Nomad Travel Clinic

Opening hours: Mon-Sat 9.15-17.00; Thu 9.15-19.00

Appointments: 0208 889 7014

Located at: 3-4 Wellington Terrace, Turnpike Lane, London, N8 0PX

Masta Travel Health

Opening hours: Mon-Thu 8.30-18.30; Fri 8.30-15.30; Sat 10.00-17.00

Appointments: 0845 600 2236; 0330 100 4131

Located at:

Oxford Circus: 52 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8SQ

STA Travel London Victoria: 52 Grovesnor Garden, Victoria, SW1W 0AG

The Gadhvi Practice, Fountayne Road Health Centre – Designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre ONLY

Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9.00-18.30

Appointments: 0207 683 4857/4854

Located at: 1A Fountayne Road, London, N16 7EA

The Nightingale Practice – Designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre ONLY

Opening hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 9.00-17.00 (no clinic Thurs)

Appointments: 0208 985 8388

Located at:

The Nightingale Practice, 10 Kenninghall Road, Clapton, London, E5 8BY

De Beauvoir Surgery – Designated Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre ONLY

Opening hours: Tues and Wed 8.30-12.00 and 16.00-17.30

Appointments: 0844 477 3602

Located at:

De Beauvoir Surgery, 8 Englefield Road, London, N1 4LN

 To find out which vaccinations are needed for the destination/s you are travelling to, please check out the links below:

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

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.

Breast Screening

The NHS Breast Screening Programme provides free breast screening every three years for all women in the UK aged 50 to 70. All of the eligible women at Barton House Group Practice will be invited for screening at the same time. Around one-and-a-half million women are screened in the UK each year. 

Breast screening is a method of detecting breast cancer at a very early stage. Women are invited to attend a special clinic or mobile screening unit to have a mammogram. A mammogram is a special type of X-ray that looks at the tissue of the breast. As it is able to reveal changes too small to be felt, it can potentially detect a change before you or your doctor has noticed anything different.
 
If you would like any more information on Breast Screening please visit the National Breast Screening Programme website: http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/breastscreen  

The purpose of the breast screening programme is to help to save lives: the earlier breast cancer is detected, the better the chances of survival.

You will receive your breast screening appointment in a few weeks. 

We would encourage you to attend your appointment when you receive your invitation, or rebook it if the time is not convenient. 

If you have already been invited to have a mammogram but did not attend, you can rebook your appointment by ringing the breast screening service on 020 7601 8305 or visit www.celbreastscreening.org.uk.

You can also choose to go to other screening units (such as Barts, Kentish Town, Mile End or Whipps Cross) if they are more convenient (please ask about this when you phone the breast screening service).

Services and Clinics

CHILD HEALTH CLINIC:

By appointment Only

Thursday      9.30am - 11.30am 

DIABETIC CLINIC
Tuesday 9.00pm - 11.30 pm (Dr Helen Drew)

HEARING AID CLINIC
Friday 2.00pm - 2.30 pm 

WELFARE RIGHTS - Hoxton Legal Advice Service attend at the surgery on Wedesdays 2pm - 5.30 pm.

SOCIAL PRESCRIBING SERVICES - 

Monday 10am-5pm 

Tuesday 2pm-4pm

Health & Wellbeing Coach 

Monday 9am-5pm

Tuesday 9am-1pm

JOINT INJECTIONS- Dr Niifio Addy- Once a week. Speak to your GP for further information.

NURSES
Our nurses can provide advice about

• Asthma
• Travel Immunisation
• Smears
• Diet Advice
• Family Planning
• Smoking Cessation
• Dressing

Our Health Care Assistant can do your Health Checks  

ALSO BASED AT THE HEALTH CENTRE ARE THE FOLLOWING

• Health Visitors
• Midwives
• Diabetic Dietician (Twice a month)
• Counselling Services including drugs and alcohol
• Community Psychology
• A Hospital Consultant Psychiatrist visits monthly  
• Smoking Cessation Advisors
• Specialist Pharmacist for respiratory advice
• First Contact Physio

BENGALI Advocate
We have an Advocate, Aziza Islam based at the Surgery on Wednesdays and Thursdays to assist Bengali speaking patients.

TURKISH Advocate
Turkish Advocates attend the Surgery on:-

• Tuesday: 9.30am - 11.30 am
• Wednesday: 1.30pm - 5.00 pm  

• Health FirstPharmacy

• If you were previously registered on Pharmacy First, you will need a new  
• registration for Health FirstPharmacy, please note the Services will now be provided to residents who are considered socially 
• vulnerable: please see for more information Health First Pharmac

Non-NHS Services

The NHS provides healthcare for people free of charge however there are some services which patients come to see the GP for which is not funded by the NHS and therefore are chargable. These non-nhs services are listed below:

•           HGV and DVLA applications- medicals for pre-employment
•           Supporting letter to employers
•           Fit to fly letter
•           Insurance claim forms
•           Private sickness certificate
•           Fostering form
•           Access to full medical records or computer summary
•           Travel insurance forms
•           Conformation of address for school/home office

The fee charges are based on the British Medical Association (BMA) guidelines. If you require more information please call to speak to our secretaries who will be able to assist you with your queries.

Flu Clinics 

The 'flu' season is now upon us.  Our practice records show that your medical condition or your age suggests that you are in a group of the population who may be at greater risk of the complications of flu and that you would benefit from having a 'flu' jab.

With social mixing and social contact returning towards pre-pandemic norms, it is expected that winter 2021 to 2022 will be the first winter in the UK when seasonal influenza virus (and other respiratory viruses) will co-circulate alongside COVID-19. Viruses have the potential to add substantially to the winter pressures usually faced by the NHS, particularly if infection waves from both viruses coincide. The timing and magnitude of potential influenza and COVID-19 infection waves for winter 2021 to 2022 are currently unknown.

Therefore we strongly recommend you to get vaccinated against flu. You are therefore invited to 0207 249 5511 and book your appointment in our dedicated Flu Clinic by speaking to a Receptionist.  You can also book your flu appointment online from 16/09/2021via Online Access using Patient Access or NHS APP.  Patient's under 18 years of age, please telephone the practice to make an appointment with the Practice nurses.

The following groups of patients will receive a letter or a text message from the practice inviting them to come in to have their flu jab:

• Children age two and three (date of birth 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2019)
• Patients aged 65 & over
• Patients aged six months to 64 years of age with a serious medical condition such as (Severe asthma, Diabetes, COPD, Cancer, Heart Disease etc)
• Pregnant women
• People living in long stay residential homes
• People in receipt of a carers allowance or main carer of an older or disabled person.
• Household contact of immunocompromised individuals
• Morbidly obese (those with BMI over 40)
• Front line healthcare workers

This year all our Flu Clinics are by appointments only, if you have either received a text message from us inviting you or received a letter from us, please telephone the surgery and book your appointment into our dedicated flu clinics.

For more information on flu https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/flu-influenza-vaccine

There are many things that impact our health and wellbeing, including feeling isolated or struggling with practical challenges. We have Social Prescribers in our practice who can speak with adults registered with the practice. They will ask you about what is happening in your life, what you enjoy, and what is getting in the way. The Social Prescriber might suggest services and activities that might help you or simply work with you to build your skills and confidence. They can tell you about community based services, e.g. lunch clubs, gardening groups, benefits advice, exercise groups. 

Please ask your GP to refer you to social prescribing.

For further information - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZKjJMyLKvQ&t=63s  

To learn more about social prescribing  - https://www.family-action.org.uk/social-prescribing-city-and-hackney-service/

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