Clinics & Services

Consulting Times

The doctors of the practice each provide full general medical services, antenatal, contraception and minor surgery. Children may also be registered for child health surveillance services.

These are the doctors' normal surgery times in Parkview on a rota basis from 1 February 2012:

Morning
6.45am - 8am
8.30am - 10.30am or
Duty Doctor Triage 8am - 1.30pm

Afternoon
2pm - 4.30pm or
2pm - 3.30pm and 4.30pm - 6pm or
Duty Doctor Triage 1.30pm - 6pm

Find out about the availability of the doctors during these surgery times.

Liquid Nitrogen Clinics are held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons with Nurse Macpherson (Tuesday only) or one of the doctors.

Asthma Clinic is held 4 - 6pm Wednesdays with Nurse Black (or by arrangement if not suitable).

Community Health Services

You can arrange a Physiotherapist, Podiatrist or Dietician appointment without seeing the doctor first. Ask at reception for details. Attached or visiting staff can be contacted via reception or by telephoning: 01241 859888.

Other Services at the Health Centre

We are keen to promote health education and preventive medicine. There are special clinics for:-

• Immunisation of children, adults and travellers
• Child Surveillance - checking growth and development of the under 5s
• Cervical smears - to help prevent cancer of the neck of the womb
• Antenatal care of expectant mothers
• Minor surgery, including treatment of warts

Please ask reception staff for details of other services.

Birth Control

Advice on all methods of contraception - including emergency contraception - and related topics is available confidentially, at normal surgery consultations. Intra-uterine devices (coils) and contraceptive implants are inserted by arrangement.