Antenatal Clinic	Child Health Surveillance
Cervical Smears	Footcare for the Elderley
Diabetic Clinic	Mammography
Foreign Travel Clinic	Well Person
Asthma Clinic	Minor Surgery

Antenatal Clinic

A comprehensive series of sessions run by a fully trained Midwife, aimed at providing all the information required to the parents to be. Please contact reception for further details.

Asthma Clinic

For those diagnosed as suffering with asthma. This is done by appointment. Please contact reception for more details.

For more information visit Asthma UK

Cervical Smears

Cervical smears are aimed at detecting cancer of the cervix at a stage at which it is treatable. We should advise that all ladies have cervical smears every 3 years up to the age of 50 and then every five years until their 65th birthday.  Please discuss with the nursing staff for further information.

Child Health Surveillance

Currently the GP performs an assessment at approximately 8 weeks. Health visitors carry out other opportunistic screening  and also assess children at 12-14 months. It is hoped that health visitors/allied staff will have access to children in nurseries or playgroups at 2-3 years of age, to liaise with staff there and assess their progress.

Diabetic Clinic

For those diagnosed as suffering with diabetes. This is via a longer appointment with our Nurse Practitioner, Karen Williams, who has a special interest in chronic disease management.  Dr Codlin is the Practice lead for diabetic management.  Please contact reception for further details.  A podiatrist is available to all diabetics.

For more information visit Diabetes UK

Foot care for the Elderly

Run by a qualified nurse, the foot care clinic is designed for those unable to look after the everyday care of their feet for whatever reason. This is done by appointment. Please contact reception for more details.

Foreign Travel Clinic

Book an appointment to see sister and bring your itinerary so that she can check it against vaccine records and plan your vaccination schedule. She can give you all types of vaccines. We also have a special licence allowing us to be a YELLOW FEVER CENTRE – enabling us to give the YELLOW FEVER VACCINATION and necessary CERTIFICATE. This is at the competitive price of £45 (inc VAT).

For more information visit Travel Health.co.uk

Mammography

Routine screening mammography for women between the ages of 50 and 65 is available in the Maidstone district. Invitations will be sent to all eligible women by the Kent Health Authorities Support Agency.

Well Person Clinics

Why not review your lifestyle? We offer a free health check every 3 years for people (aged 16-75) who do not normally come to the surgery and for all newly registered patients. This clinic is run by the sisters at both surgeries.

The check includes:

• Blood pressure check
• Height and weight measurement
• Analysis of urine sample
• Advice on smoking, alcohol, diet and lifestyle

Appointments can be booked through reception. (If you have symptoms of an illness you should book an appointment with a Doctor rather than come to this clinic.)

If you are aged 75 or over you are entitled to a health check. Please ask at reception for details.

For more information visit Healthy Living

Minor Surgery

A minor surgery service is provided by the surgery. Drs Taylor and Reed both have a long experience and are keen operators. Operations are usually performed on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. If you feel you would benefit form this service, please book an appointment with either Dr Reed or Dr Taylor.