Smallfield Surgery - The clinics and other services offered by our doctors surgery

We run a range of clinics. For an appointment or further details, please call on our main switchboard number on 01342 843822.

Antenatal

Mondays 9.30am to 12.15pm
This clinic is run by the midwives. If you become pregnant, you will be given a ‘booking appointment’ on a Thursday afternoon at which the midwife will ask you a number of questions and carry out some general health checks. You will be seen regularly throughout your pregnancy either at the practice or at the local hospital, or both.

Health Visitors Drop-in clinic

Tuesdays 1.30pm-3.00pm
The Health Visitor is available for you to drop in for a chat and to weigh your baby. Some of the child health checks are also performed in this clinic.

Childhood immunisation

Wednesdays 2.00pm-4.00pm
All childhood immunisations are performed in this clinic.

Minor surgery

Thursdays (Once a month) 12pm-1pm
Minor operations can be done in our treatment room. Please discuss this with your doctor who will then arrange for you to be given an appointment.

Diabetes

Thursdays (Once a month) 11am-1pm
Dr Jenkins and Scilla Wallis run this clinic which offers advice and general health check-ups to patients diagnosed with diabetes.

Asthma

Asthma sufferers can book in with Scilla Wallis whenever she is available, but you need to ask for an asthma check appointment to ensure that sufficient time is allocated.

Heart disease

Thursdays 2pm – 4pm
Rachel Dixon runs this clinic which aims to give heart disease sufferers a thorough check and plenty of opportunity for asking questions.

Anticoagulant clinic

Thursdays 8.30am - 10.30am
Rachel Dixon also runs this service. She manages the anticoagulation of patiensts taking warfarin for a variety of medical conditions.

Stopping smoking

Both our practice nurses can give advice and support to patients trying to give up smoking.

General Health Care

It is the policy of the practice to try to prevent ill health in addition to try to minimise the effects of ill health. It is for this purpose that you may find the Doctor checks things like your blood pressure when you attend for a sore throat. You may also be advised to attend a health check with the nurse when you attend for a minor matter.

There will be occasions when having attended the surgery the Doctor feels that your illness is self-limiting and does not require any treatment with a prescription medicine to make it better. This does not mean that the Doctor feels that you have wasted your time or his/her by attending.

Other local NHS services

As well as our practice, there are many other local NHS services you can contact for health advice, information or treatment. Before you do, remember that you can treat many minor ailments such as colds, coughs and indigestion by keeping a well-stocked medicine cabinet at home.

Test Results

xray The results of most blood tests are available 48 hours later, please contact the surgery on (01342 843822) after 10.30am in the morning.

X-ray results can take up to a week.

Remember that the results of tests can only be given to the patient, except where we have the written consent of the patient to provide details to another individual.

Travel Vaccinations

If you are travelling to any country that may make having some travel vaccinations advisable you first need to complete one of our travel questionnaires. You can obtain these from reception or by downloading one below. Once the completed form is returned to the surgery one of our practice nusrses will go through it and you then need to phone the surgery a few days later to find out which, is any, immunisations you will need. We can provide all the vaccinations needed most commonly to our registered patients, but for a few, eg yellow fever, you will need to visit another travel clinic. The nurses can also advise about malaria prophylaxis and provide private prescriptions when necessary

Travel Health Questionnaire

You can complete the travel questionnaire online below. Please allow at least two working days after completing the questionnaire before calling the surgery to see which, if any, immunisations you need.

Travel Questionnaire (online)

Alternatively you can print out a questionnaire and complete it by hand before dropping it into the surgery

Travel questionnaire to print

You might like to look at the Fit for Travel website for some basic travel health advice. The guidance given will be consistent with that provided by our nurses.

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Noticeboard

Patient Survey and Action Plan

Our patient survey is now complete and you can look at the results by clicking on the link below. Our Patient Group has discussed the results and helped us draw up an Action Plan for the coming year and there is a link to the full report below, under Further Information. If you just want to see the Action Plan please click here Action Plan

Electronic Prescription Service

You can now have your prescriptions sent electronically to your preferred pharmacy. All you have to do is nominate your pharmacy of choice with reception.

Online Services

Did you know you can book appointments request repeat prescriptions online?. To make use of these services you first need to reigster with us for Vision Online Services (VOS). You can pick up the necessary form in the surgery, or via this link VOS registration form

The completed form needs to be returned to the surgery.

Patient Group

We now have a Patient Reference Group to enable us to obtain views from a sample of our patients about current and future services. If you would like to join this group, which will involve giving us you email address, or another form of contact, and some other details, please click the appropriate option in the list below.