Services We Offer to Patients
Health Services
We provide full general medical services, including:
- Cervical Smear Screening
- Family Planning
- Child Development Clinics
- Immunisations
- Travel Advice & Vaccinations including Yellow Fever
- Antenatal Clinics
- Minor Surgery Procedures
Telephone Advice
If you would like advice, please telephone the surgery number after morning surgery, i.e. after 11.30am. This reduces interruptions during consultations.
Home Visits
The Doctors are happy to visit patients who are confined to the house or are too ill to attend the surgery. Please phone between the hours of 8.00am and 12.00 noon to enable the Doctors to plan their working day.
Travel Information
Middle Lane Surgery has a nurse specialising in travel medicine and immunisations and the surgery is a registered Yellow Fever Centre. If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel, you can make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your arrangements. To assist this process, you will be asked to complete a travel questionnaire. For information on vaccinations recommended for your designated country of travel, please visit www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk.
It is important to make the initial appointment as early as possible (at least 8 weeks before you travel) as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.
Most travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge. This is because travel vaccination is not included in the services provided by the NHS and is therefore a chargeable service.
We can also advise on suitable drugs, such as anti-malaria tablets, needle packs and other travellers equipment.
