Baby Clinic

Our Baby Clinic is Changing

Please note that from Thursday 30th May 2019 Baby Clinic will be by appointment only for the Doctor, Nurse & Health Visitors. We will no longer provide Doctor’s walk-in baby clinic. Parents with concerns regarding their child can call the surgery to make an appointment in the usual way.

The Health Visitors will be available on the Thursday baby clinic between 9.30am – 11.40am to answer your queries and concerns and again it will be by appointments only, please telephone 0207 683 4753 for health visitor appointments.

When you arrive for Baby Clinic, please check in first at the main reception desk. Tell the receptionist who you are here to see, Nurse, Doctor or Health Visitor. They will make sure you are checked in. Please remember to bring with you your Red Book.

If you are coming for your baby’s six week check, to avoid delay it is advisable to register your baby before the day of your appointment.

We give all parents and babies the time that they need when they visit Baby Clinic. This can result in long waits. Please be patient! If you are concerned that you have been missed, ask the Health Visitor or one of the receptionists on the main desk to check that you have been checked in.

 Please do not bring your baby to baby clinic if they have:

•           Diarrhoea / vomiting
•           A fever
•           A cold

If your child is unwell with a new rash please call the surgery and ask to speak to the duty doctor for advice before coming in to the surgery.

Seeing the Health Visitor

If you wish to have your baby weighed or speak to the Health Visitors, please telephone them on 0207 683 4753 to arrange an appointment to be seen at the clinic.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions or concerns about Baby Clinic or any other aspect of the service we provide at Barton House.

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:

For Barton House patients ONLY:

Thursday      9.30am - 11.30am 

See Baby Clinic Tab for more information on how the clinic runs.

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.

GENTLE EXERCISE - Thursdays 2pm - 3pm

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

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  

Pharmacy First

The Pharmacy First Scheme enables you to receive prescription medications, to treat a range of common conditions, direct from the pharmacist without a GP prescription. You will need to be registered with a GP to use this service.

If you don’t normally pay NHS prescription charges, then you can receive medicine supplied under the Pharmacy First scheme FREE of charge.

If you do pay for your prescriptions, then the cost of the medicine(s) should be much less than the current prescription charge.

The conditions covered by the scheme are:

conditions covered by the scheme (click for protocols) are:

• Acute Cough
• Allergic Conjunctivitis
• Allergic Rhinitis (Hay fever)
• Common Warts And Verruca
• Constipation
• Diarrhoea
• Fever in Children
• Head Lice
• Infantile Colic
• Infective Conjunctivitis
• Scabies
• Threadworm
• Vaginal Thrush

Please see the poster below. You can pick up a form from reception to register which you will need to give to a participating pharmacy to get medication for any of the conditions mentioned above.

Pharmacy First Poster

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 Vaccines available for 50 - 64 year olds

From 1 December, the NHS flu vaccination is available for everyone aged 50 and over. You can get vaccinated at your GP surgery.

Have you booked yours yet?

We are holding a dedicated clinic on Saturday 19th December, book now to avoid disappointment as we will have limited resources. Due to COVID-19, all appointments are pre-booked only.  

Flu Clinics -

The 'flu' season is upon us yet again! Flu is a very contagious infection, which can cause serious illness among people aged over 65 years, or those of any age with particular medical conditions. Levels of 'flu' infection rise during the winter months. The best way to protect yourself against 'flu' is by having the 'flu' jab every year.

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 2016 to 31 August 2018)
• 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

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