Patients with coronary heart disease are invited to specialist heart disease clinics held by the doctors and should be seen at least once a year for this.
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Coil Service
We provide contraceptive, coil and implant procedures. Clinics take place regularly. If you would like to access these services, please speak to Reception.
Please note that patients attending the coil clinic need to ensure they are not pregnant, and should either abstain from sexual intercourse or should use alternative contraception prior to attending the clinic.
Chlamydia Screening
If you are aged between 15 and 24 years of age you are eligible for a chlamydia screening test. Just ask at Reception for a chlamydia testing kit. Kits are also available in the communal toilets in the surgery if you prefer. You can take this away with you and post if off yourself.
For more information about chlamydia screening visit NHS Website: Chlamydia.
Children’s Immunisations
The practice will contact parents to invite babies/children to attend at the appropriate times for child health surveillance and immunisation. Baby clinics are held on a Tuesday morning.
For comprehensive information on NHS immunisations given to children, please visit the NHS Website: Vaccination Schedule.
The website includes a useful NHS vaccination wall planner giving the schedule of vaccinations and due dates which you can personalise for your child.
Cervical Screening
Cervical smears are recommended at three yearly intervals between the ages of 25 and 49 and at five yearly intervals between the ages of 50 and 65. They are performed by the practice nurses.
We offer a range of clinics and services here at London Lane Clinic to help with cancer screening.
Bowel Cancer
Bowel cancer is a term used to describe cancer in the colon, rectum or the small bowel.
The symptoms of bowel cancer can include:
- Bleeding from the back passage (rectum) or blood in your stools
- A change in normal bowel habits to diarrhoea or looser stools, lasting longer than 4 to 6 weeks
- A lump that your doctor can feel in your back passage or abdomen (more commonly on the right side)
- A feeling of needing to strain in your back passage (as if you needed to pass a bowel motion)
- Losing weight
- Pain in your abdomen or back passage
- A lower than normal level of red blood cells (anaemia)
Because bowel tumours can bleed, cancer of the bowel often causes a shortage of red blood cells. This is called anaemia and may cause tiredness and sometimes breathlessness.
Bowel Cancer Screening
How do I get a screening kit?
If you are aged 60-69 years, you will be sent your screening invitation automatically through the post. All you need to do is make sure that your GP has your correct address.
‘People aged 70 years and over or under the age of 60, who wish to be screened, should request a kit. Simply telephone the free helpline on 0800 707 60 60.’
Macmillan Cancer Support
Have questions about cancer? Visit www.macmillan.org.uk or call 0808 808 000 free (Monday to Friday 9am – 8pm).
Breast Screening
The National Breast Screening Programme was introduced in 1988 as an early detection service for breast cancer. It states that all women who are aged between 50 – 70 years of age will be routinely invited for free breast screening every three years. The programme is very successful and currently saves around 1,400 lives per year.
Breast screening aims to find breast cancer at an early stage, often before there are any symptoms. To do this, an x-ray is taken of each breast (mammogram). Early detection may often mean simpler and more successful treatment. When women are invited for their mammogram depends on which GP they are registered with, not when their birthday is.
The screening office runs a rolling programme which invites women by area. The requirement is that all women will receive their first invitation before their 53rd birthday, but ideally when they are 50. If you are under 50 and concerned about any aspect of breast care, please contact the surgery to make an appointment with your GP.
Cervical Screening Test
Cervical screening, or smear test, is a method of detecting abnormal (pre-cancerous) cells in the cervix in order to prevent cervical cancer. The cervix is the entrance to the womb from the vagina. Cervical screening is recommended every three years for women aged 25 to 49 and every five years for women aged 50 to 64 or more frequently if smear results indicates abnormal changes.
Cervical screening is not a test for cancer; it is a test to check the health of the cells of the cervix. Most women’s test results show that everything is normal, but for 1 in 20 women the test will show some abnormal changes in the cells of the cervix.
Most of these changes will not lead to cervical cancer and the cells may go back to normal on their own. However, in some cases, the abnormal cells need to be treated to prevent them becoming cancerous.
Our nurses are qualified to carry out cervical screening and tests in the form of cervical smears. In order to have a cervical smear the patient must have received a letter requesting that they have a cervical smear and the appointment must please be made for when the patient is not menstruating.
These appointments typically take around 15 minutes. For any further information or to book an appointment, please call the surgery.
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Asthma & COPD
We have specialist respiratory nurses who provide regular check ups and advice for patients with asthma and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).
We advise patients with asthma or COPD to have an annual check up. Please book an appointment for this.
Antenatal Care
Routine antenatal check-ups are provided by our qualified midwife in the surgery. These appointments are arranged direct by the midwife.
GP referral to Community Pharmacy Consultation Service
To help you get appropriate medical attention in the quickest time, London Lane Clinic is working even more closely with local pharmacists by being able to offer you a same day private consultation with a local pharmacist. Pharmacists are qualified healthcare professionals and experts in medicines. They can give clinical advice and over-the-counter medicines for all sorts of minor illnesses.
Community pharmacists have already successfully seen thousands of patients for a consultation for a minor illness, following a call to NHS 111. This new way of arranging consultations with the pharmacist by a GP practice, has been successfully piloted around the country.
This in turn frees up GP appointments for those people with more complex symptoms who really need to see a GP.
How Does this Service Work?
When you call/submit an eConsult, you are asked about your symptoms. If your symptoms indicate that you can best be helped by a pharmacist, you will be offered a same day private consultation with a local community pharmacist. Pharmacies near BR1 4HB – NHS (www.nhs.uk).
We then will share your personal details and details of your minor illness with that pharmacist. The pharmacist will contact you to arrange your consultation on the same day, or at a time that suits you.
You may be seen in person in a private consulting room, if the pharmacist thinks it appropriate, or your consultation may be carried out over the phone or via video. You will be asked about your medical history and symptoms and current medication; in the same way the GP would ask you about them.
Usually, the pharmacist will provide you with advice and can sell you with an over the counter product where needed, if you choose. They will also send details of your consultation back to us for our records.
If the pharmacist feels you need to be seen by a GP urgently, they will call us to ensure you are seen, or they will advise you to contact the hospital Emergency Department if deemed necessary. You may also be referred back to London Lane Clinic to arrange a non-urgent appointment or follow up.
What if I get Free Prescriptions From my GP?
Your pharmacist will provide you with advice on how to treat your symptoms, which may include a medicine or product. Medicines that can be purchased in a pharmacy to treat minor illnesses, are usually inexpensive and would not normally be prescribed by your GP anyway. You are free to choose if you wish to make a purchase or not.
What Happens if I Don’t Want to see the Pharmacist?
London Lane Clinic want to ensure that you are offered an appointment with the most appropriate qualified health care professional based on your symptoms. If you have minor illness symptoms that can be treated the same day through a consultation with a qualified community pharmacist, but do not want to accept this referral, you will be offered a routine appointment with your GP at a future date.
What if the Patient is my Child?
Children aged over one years are eligible to use this service and can be seen by the pharmacist. Children who are able to make their own decision about their health may be seen unaccompanied.
Why is this a Good Thing for Patients?
Community pharmacies are local, open longer hours than the GP practice and can offer you the same consultation outcome at a time that is more convenient for you. If the pharmacist thinks you need to see the GP, they can help arrange an urgent appointment for you.
Patients who have already used the service liked the convenience of having a consultation on the same day, or a day that suited them, at a pharmacy of their choice. 78% of people who had a consultation with a community pharmacist were successfully helped.