Clinics

Family Planning

A full range of family planning services is available in the practice. Please ask at reception for a family planning appointment with our specially trained practice nurse.

Maternity Care

Maternity services should be arranged with your own doctor. Antenatal care will be shared with the community midwife, who holds clinics in the surgery on Wednesday afternoons.

Cervical Smears/Well Woman Checks

Please make an appointment with the receptionist for the practice nurse to carry out routine cervical smears and well woman checks. Cervical smears should be carried out every three years for all women between the ages of 25 and 49 and then every five years until the age of 64. You will be sent a reminder when your next test is due.

Childhood Immunisations

Children's vaccination sessions are held weekly. Your child will be sent a reminder as we consider it is very important that all children and babies are fully immunised against infectious diseases. This is a Directed Enhanced Service (DES) - see below

Asthma, Diabetes And Other Disease Management

Our practice nurses hold regular asthma and diabetes clinics. We offer all our diabetic and asthmatic patients at least one annual assessment with the practice nurse or doctor.

The practice nurses also offer regular blood tests and assessments for patients with a number of other long-term conditions such as heart disease or epilepsy or who are taking certain medications.

Flu Vaccinations

These are available in the autumn. If you are elderly or particularly susceptible to infections or you have diabetes, respiratory disease including asthma, heart disease, renal disease or liver disease or you are a carer, you need to ring to make an appointment sometime in October. This is a Directed Enhanced Service (DES) - see below

Pneumonia Vaccinations

These are available at any time. If you need a flu vaccination you should also have a pneumonia vaccination. Most people only need to have it once although certain categories of people need it more often. Ask the practice nurse about this.

Hearing Test

These can be arranged with the practice nurse.

Stopping Smoking

The practice nurse runs special clinics on stopping smoking. If you want to stop smoking speak to one of the receptionists who will arrange an appointment.

You can obtain nicotine replacement drugs such as patches or chewing gum on prescription to help you stop smoking.

Immunisations / Vaccinations

Childhood immunisations and flu vaccinations are Directed Enhanced Services (DES). Such services must be provided by the PCT for its population.

Other such servides include information management, learning difficulties, minor surgery, osteoporosis and practice-based commissioning.

Signing

The practice has access to the sign-health website so that your doctor or nurse can conduct the consultation with the help of a sign language translation. Please let the doctor or nurse know if you would find this service helpful.

Periodic Health Checks

Under the terms of the GP Contract, if you have not seen a doctor for more than three years the doctor may, during the consultation, ask you questions and undertake additional examinations if it is deemed suitable. If you are over 75 years of age, this will apply if you have not seen a doctor for more than a year.

Other Services In The Health Centre

As well as The Lyons Practice there are two other doctors' practices in the health centre and many other medical services.

These include:

• Chiropody
• Speech therapy
• School nurse
• Audiology
• Registrar of births and deaths
  
  

DIRECTED ENHANCED SERVICES (DES) must be provided by the PCT for its population. In addition th the services mentioned above the practice provides the following Directed Enhanced Services: Information Management. Learning Difficulties. Minor Surgery, Osteoporois and Practice Based Commissioning.