Well Baby Clinic

Well Baby Clinics are held for child health surveillance and advice, weighing and immunisations. Please do not bring sick babies to these clinics, as we would like to avoid infections being transmitted to other babies who may be vulnerable.

Tuesday 9:15am until 10:20am - Doctors  clinic.
The six week and 18 month developmental checks are done by the doctors at this clinic by appointment. All routine childhood immunisations are carried out.

Wednesday 1.30 until 3.00pm
The practice nurses are available for immunisations by appointment only and the Health Visitors will be available for weighing and advice. Leaflets are available at reception. 

For safety reasons, prams and buggies are not allowed into the building during baby clinics. There is a covered pram park, please bring a lock to secure your pram. 

Minor Surgery Clinic

We hold minor surgery clinics at various times.  Patients can only book an appointment if they have been referred by the doctor. 

Antenatal Clinic

A team of midwives from Homerton Hospital works together with the doctors at our community antenatal clinic on Thursday afternoons and Friday.

Asthma Clinic (By appointment)

Practice nurse, Joanne Howard, discusses aspects of asthma treatment and prevention of acute asthma attacks. She also instructs patients on the use of inhalers and assesses the effect of treatment.

Travel Vaccinations

These are available by appointment. Travel abroad is so common nowadays that it is often easy to forget the necessary precautions. Consult one of the practice nurses at least two months before departure. She will be able to advise you on what vaccinations are required and what medications you may need.

Make sure you have adequate medical insurance. If you are visiting an EEC country, you will need form E111 available from your post office.

• Take a small first aid kit.
• Attention to personal hygiene is essential.
• Beware bites from insects and animals. Many diseases are insect-borne.
• Be careful with raw vegetables, salads, fruit, shellfish and ice-cubes.
• Respect the power of the sun - use sun creams regularly.
• Sexually transmitted diseases (including AIDS) are a major health threat throughout the world. Condoms offer some protection.
• If you are advised to take anti-malaria tablets, remember that you may need to start at least one week before departure and continue for four weeks after you return.  Anti-malaria tablets can also be obtained for a pharmacy without a prescription

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. 

Information about countries and vaccinations required can be found 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 the 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.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.

Travel Questionnaire

Sickness Certificates

You do not require a doctor's sickness certificate for any illness lasting seven days or less. Your employer may however require you to complete a self-certification form (SC2) which is available from your employer or on the HMRC website.

For any illness lasting longer than seven days you will need to see the doctor for him/her to issue a Fitness to Work certificate and for any subsequent renewal of the certificate. If your employer insists on a sickness certificate for 7 days or less a charge will be levied.

Child Immunisations

Childhood immunisations are a very important way of protecting your child from serious illness. Despite the bad publicity in the press about immunisation in children, evidence shows that your child is at much greater risk from contracting the disease than he or she is from suffering a serious reaction to the immunisation.

Please don’t bring your child for immunisation if they are unwell with a feverish illness. Don’t worry about a runny nose without a fever. Please discuss any worries that you may have with the doctor or nurse.

Click here for the vaccination schedule

All of these immunisations are available at the well baby clinic or by appointment with the practice nurses.

Flu Vaccinations

In accordance with the Department of Health guidelines, we recommend influenza vaccination for patients with chronic heart, lung or kidney disease, diabetes, patients over 65, residents of nursing and rest homes and pregnant women.

The same group of patients should also have the pneumococcal vaccine but this only needs to be given once in adults.

We will not be having any walk-in flu clinics again this year so if you are eligible for a flu jab please book an appointment with one of our practice nurses.

Non-NHS Examinations

If you need a special examination, e.g. for fitness to undertake sports, pre-employment, heavy goods vehicle, public service vehicle or elderly drivers, this will be done by special appointment and a fee will be charged and this will be required in advance of the appointment. Please tell the receptionist the nature of the examination you require.

If you are attending for a life insurance examination, the company will be responsible for the fee. For medicals, please be prepared to pass a urine specimen when you reach the surgery.