SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE PRACTICE

• FULL FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES:

Here at Northgate Medical Practice, we can offer a full range of contraceptive and family planning options. Any GP can provide advice on what type of contraception is best for you, but here, we provide specialist clinics to offer one to one advice, as well as including coil fitting and the contraceptive implant

• Child Health surveillance
• Cervical smear services
• New Patient screening
• NHS Health Checks
• Maternity Medical services
• Health Promotion clinics:
  - Asthma
  - Chronic diseases
  - Diabetes
  - Hypertension
• Minor Surgery
• Smoking Cessation
• Well Women Clinics
• Well Men Clinics
• Travel Health and Immunisation Clinics
• General and Addiction counselling
• Physiotherapy
• Osteopathy
• Diabetic Ophthalmic screening
• Diabetic Chiropody & Diabetic Dietician 4 District Nursing services
• Medicals for LGV/PSV licence requirements or for insurance and pre-employment purposes. Please ask at Reception for details.
• Choose and Book. This is a new service which allows you to choose where and when it suits you to be treated by a hospital consultant. Should you need to be referred, pick up a leaflet at the Reception Desk.

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GROUND RULES FOR TREATING DRUG OR ALCOHOL MISUSERS

All persons with the above difficulties will be expected to agree with a treatment programme orally, or by signing a consent form. The doctor that you see will expect you to participate in any reasonable, physical or medical investigation as part of your full assessment.

Withdrawal from heroin or related drugs is dealt with by Kent Council on Addictions (KCA) and you will be referred there for relevant treatment. Withdrawal from alcohol is dealt with by Mount Zeehan, or other specialist alcohol services and you will be referred there initially.

A copy of our consent form, including practice ground rules and standards of behaviour acceptable within the practice is available on request.

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required. There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Carribean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

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.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please print out the form below and then fill it in before coming to see the nurse.

Northgate Medical Practice Travel Questionnaire

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