Practice services and clinics

The bowel cancer screening programme now includes everyone over the age of 50. You’ll automatically be sent an NHS
Bowel Screening Kit when you become eligible. It’s the most important post you’ll receive.

For more information please click here

All women between the age of 20 and 65 should have a regular smear test every three to five years. We send out appointment reminders to all of our patients to let you know when your next smear is due.

We send out appointments for regular checks and immunisations for pre-school children. This is to make sure that our doctors and health visitors can check that children are developing normally and that there’s nothing to worry about.

HEALTH VISITOR ADVICE LINE:  0300 790 6836, choose option 3 available 9am to 5pm, MON – FRI for health advice and information (please leave a message if call not answered. We aim to get back to you within 24 hours)

CHEDDAR:  WEDNESDAY: 10.00am to 11:30am Ocean Adventures Play Centre, Cheddar, BS27 3EB . Healthy Little Ones Group every week TERM TIME ONLY.

If you have recently discovered you are pregnant please visit the Musgrove park website and register your pregnancy there, a midwife will make contact with you to arrange your booking appointment. 

We have a antenatal clinic every Thursday with a midwife.

While our doctors and nurses can give confidential advice on all aspects of family planning, your local pharmacy can also provide this information.

We also provide Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) services, such as coil fittings. However, this service is temporarily suspended due to staff absence.

For patients requiring this service in the meantime we will be referring you to the LARC service provided at Axbridge and Wedmore Medical Practice.

Find out about local counsellors and advice services. You can access these services by speaking to your GP or receptionist.

A full family planning service is provided including emergency contraception and the fitting of coils and counselling. The Practice Nurse also provides family planning advice and we are happy to provide confidential services for people under 16, and advice on safer sex.

We offer a wide range of health screening for men and women at our practice.

If your National Health Service hearing aid batteries need replacing you can obtain supplies of these free from the Practice. Please ask at Reception. 

Some services available are not covered under our contract with the NHS. This means that these services need to be paid for.

The services that include charges are:

• Medicals for pre-employment, sports and driving requirements.
• Insurance claim forms.
• Passport signing.
• Prescriptions for taking medication abroad.
• Private sick notes.
• Vaccination certificates.

Our reception staff and GPs will be happy to talk through the charges with you during your appointment.

Women aged between 50 and 70 are advised to attend the Breast Screening Unit every three years for a mammography. This is to make sure we can check and detect any abnormalities as soon as possible. These appointments are sent out by the local Breast Unit.

Find breast screening services.

Our antenatal and postnatal clinics are held at our practice by our doctors and midwives.

Our doctors provide a minor surgery service by appointment.

We offer routine vaccinations and general advice to our patients travelling abroad.

The following travel vaccines are available free on the NHS at the Practice:

• polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)
• typhoid
• hepatitis A
• cholera

These vaccines are free because they protect against diseases thought to represent the greatest risk to public health if they were brought into the country.

The following vaccinations are not available at the Practice and you will have to pay privately for travel vaccinations against:

• hepatitis B
• Japanese encephalitis
• meningitis
• rabies
• tick-borne encephalitis
• tuberculosis (TB)
• yellow fever

Yellow fever vaccines are only available from designated centres.

We need eight weeks notice before you travel to make sure we have vaccination stock, appointment availability and to ensure you have a full course of vaccinations.

Please let reception know if you need travel vaccinations and they will provide you with more information and ask you to complete a travel form