Practice Nurses
The nurses provide a wide range of services including:

• family planning
• cervical smears
• blood pressure and heart disease checks
• smoking cessation
• Counter weight management programme
• ear syringing
• travel advice and immunisations
• asthma checks
• diabetic checks
• ‘FLU’ vaccinations
• advice for a healthy lifestyle.

Appointments can be made for the following times:

Healthcare Assistant
Appointments are available at the following times:

Health Visitor(s)
All children under five years are allocated to our health visitors. They are available during baby clinics (Mon 1:30 – 3:30pm) no appointment necessary, for developmental concerns, support and advice. They are also available for telephone advice by phoning 020 8525 1250; you may be required to leave a message.

Antenatal Clinic
Mondays and Tuesdays: 9:00am – 12:10pm

This clinic is staffed by midwives from the Homerton hospital and our practice doctors. By appointment through reception.

Baby Clinic
Wednesdays 1:30 – 3:30pm

This is a walk in ‘well baby’ clinic for immunisations and for monitoring your child’s growth and development, it is staffed by the health visitor and a practice nurse and a doctor. Please book in at reception upon your arrival.

Developmental Checks
Thursdays 2:00 – 3:20

6 week and 18 months developmental checks with the doctor by appointment.

Weighing
You may weigh your baby / toddler outside of baby clinic hours once you have been instructed on how to do so correctly by a staff member. Please check for times and availability through reception.

Diabetic Clinic
Various days & times by invitation. In addition to their usual care, patients with diabetes are invited for a complete medical check up once a year. During the appointment they will see a practice nurse and Doctor.

COPD Clinic
Wednesday afternoons (weekly) by invitation

Counter Weight Management Programme
If you are overweight and would like to join one of our groups, please talk to one of our Practice Nurses or your GP.

Smoking Cessation
By appointment through reception. An initial 30 minute appointment with one of our practice nurses, and then 15 minute follow up appointments for up to 3 months, for advice and continuing support. To avail of this you must be ready to set a quit date and be seen weekly for the first 4 weeks. Nicotine replacement therapy can be prescribed for up to 12 weeks under this scheme.

Community Psychologist
Fridays 1:00 – 5:00 Appointments by doctor’s referral

Legal Advice
Tuesday 2:00 – 5:00
Book appointments through receptionist

Family Welfare Service
Thursday 09:00 – 1:00
Appointment by Doctors referral

Early Intervention Child Mental Health Services
Thursday 01:30 – 5:00
Appointment by Doctors referral

Turkish Kurdish Depression Group
First Friday of each alternate month 
Walk-in session

Turkish/Kurdish Counsellor
Tuesday mornings.
By doctors referral

Turkish/ Kurdish Advocate Sessions
Patients requiring the use of a Turkish / Kurdish advocate during doctors / nurses consultations. By appointment.
Monday afternoons
Tuesday mornings
Wednesday mornings
Friday mornings

We also offer our patients whose first language is not English a service called language line. The doctor or nurse can obtain an advocate in many different languages using the telephone on hands free which enables a three way conversation to take place. Please advise reception that you will require this service when booking the appointment.

Turkish/Kurdish Welfare & Benefits Advisor
To arrange an appointment please contact Hamdi on: 0207 739 7026 (Fridays between 9:00 & 1200)

Asian Women’s Over 50’s Group
This group meets alternate Monday’s 10:30 till 1:00 for full list of dates check at reception

YOGA
For further information on times of classes and prices please contact the Healing Tent on: 020 8986 7777 or 07905 500496

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.

Most travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge.  This is because travel vaccination is not included in the services provided by the NHS and therefore is a chargeable service.

Yellow fever vaccination is not available at this clinic. Please speak to reception for information on local travel clinics where it may be obtained.

Medical Certificates

If you are absent from work for more than seven days you are required to see a doctor at a routine appointment to obtain a medical certificate. The certificate can be backdated so we do not consider this a sufficient reason for an urgent appointment.

Please do not attend an on call clinic to request a medical certificate.

Absences from work due to illness for a period of less than seven days do not require a doctor’s certificate. You can obtain a self certificate from your employer or the local social security office.

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Driving licenses/requests for GP to sign application forms

Please leave forms and photographs with a receptionist. They will be ready for collection one week later. Please note that the doctor must have known you personally for at least 2 years to be able to sign the form. A fee will be charged for this work. A list of fees as recommended by the British Medical Association is displayed at reception.