| NON-NHS EXAMINATIONS
The doctors are happy to carry out medicals eg insurance and driving licence. Please telephone the surgery for an appointment and ask at reception for the current charges of these services or see the list which follows:
FEES FOR NON-NHS SERVICES
Accident/sickness
insurance benefit claim form
|
£36.00 |
| Access to records
under Data Protection Act
|
£10.00 |
BUPA/PPP etc claim
form
|
£36.00 |
Childminder medical
report form
|
£85.10 |
Copies of records
for patients under
Access to Health Records Act 1990 | £50.00 |
| Copies of results
for private use |
£5.00 |
| Driving licence
form and photograph |
£35.00 |
| Driving (Elderly,
LGV, PCV, Taxi, Racing) fitness certificate with medical |
£130.00 |
| |
| Emerson College
certificate without medical |
£67.00 |
| Employers report/opinion
with/without medical |
£174.00/£93.00 |
| Fitness to travel
certificate |
£42.00 |
| Holiday cancellation
certificate |
£40.00 |
| Overseas visitor
private consultation (inc prescription) |
£70.00/120
Euros |
| Pre-employment
medical with report |
£174.00 |
| Private prescription |
£12.50 |
| |
|
| School fees insurance
claim form |
£35.00 |
| Seat belt exemption
examination with full medical |
£130.00 |
| Shotgun certificate |
£58.00 |
| Sports medical
with report |
£130.00 |
| Vaccination certificate (if not issued at time of vaccination) |
£15.00 |
| |
| VACCINATIONS
(Including cost of vaccine) |
| Hepatitis B per
dose (Hep A = No charge) |
£35.00 |
| Meningitis |
£55.00 |
| Rabies (course
of 3) |
£125.00 |
| Yellow Fever |
£45.00 |
|
All fees are subject to alteration.
East Sussex Downs & Weald Primary Care Trust
36-38 Friars Walk,
Lewes,
East Sussex
BN7 2PB
Telephone: 01273 485300
ASTHMA, CHD AND DIABETES CLINICS
By appointment with the practice nurse.
MINOR SURGERY
By appointment with a
doctor (mornings only if cryotherapy etc).
CYTOLOGY CLINIC
By appointment with practice nurse or a doctor.
PRACTICE NURSE SURGERIES AND CLINICS
Appointments can be given for the practice nurse at any time during
their surgery times. Patients do not need to have seen the doctor first.
Family Planning/HRT - The nurses are
trained to prescribe the following:- contraceptive pills (including emergency
contraception which may be given up to three days after unprotected sex), to fit
and check the diaphragm, injectable contraceptives, to check the coil (fitting
must be done by your doctor) and to advise on the menopause and to prescribe HRT.
Please ask the receptionist for a family planning or HRT appointment.
Patients may see them for advice on diabetes, asthma, heart problems
and diet. Appointments may also be made for ear syringing and treatment of cuts or sprains.
We offer a weekly travel clinic to assist patients. Preliminary advice may be obtained by booking an appointment in the nurse's
telephone surgery to discuss your vaccination needs, eight weeks before your departure date, if possible. The
Ashdown Forest Health Centre is an authorised Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre.
TRAINING
We are pleased to confirm that Dr Baseley has been appointed as a general practitioner trainer and are proud that the practice has been formally made a training practice for doctors in their final stages of their training to become GPs. These doctors are usually known as Registrars. In addition we are recognised as an undergraduate training practice and from time to time medical students are attached to the practice. Patients are always asked for their permission for a student to be present at consultations, which are sometimes videoed. Inspection of medical records is undertaken for training purposes only. Similarly, our district nurses and health visitors occasionally have students attached for practical training.
HEALTH VISITORS
Health visitors are available to
advise individuals, families and groups on all aspects of good health achievement,
with particular emphasis on children. They also advise on the nursing care of sick children. Telephone (01342) 822249 between 9.00am - 12 noon, Monday to Friday, to speak to a member of the Health Visiting Team.
SPECIAL SERVICES AND HEALTH PROMOTION
Our practice is committed to provide
services not only for the sick but for those wishing to remain well. New patient
check ups, routine follow up appointments of diabetic, asthmatic or hypertensive
patients are by appointment with the practice nurse.
Antenatal Group
By arrangement with the midwife.
Postnatal Group
A chance to meet other local parents in an informal setting and to share and receive information on
health-related topics with our health visitors Thursdays by arrangement with health visitors.
Child Health Clinic
1st and 3rd Thursday afternoons in the month, 2.00 - 3.30pm.
Child Health Developmental Surveillance
By arrangement with health visitors.
Child Immunisation Clinic
Tuesday 2.00pm by appointment.
Chiropody Clinic
Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon.
Dietician
Wednesday morning. Held every four weeks.
Family Planning
By appointment with doctor or practice nurse.
Flu Vaccination
An influenza vaccination is particularly recommended for patients with heart, lung or kidney disease, diabetes and residents of nursing and rest homes.
Pneumonia Vaccination
Once only injection recommended for all patients aged 65 and over.
Immunisations
By appointment with nurse.
Targeted Health Promotion Clinics
By invitation.
Travel Clinic
Tuesday afternoon.
We encourage all our patients to share the responsibility for their
health, both in prevention and treatment of disease.
A consultation may be provided for patients aged 16-74 who have not
consulted a doctor here within the last three years and for patients aged 75 and over who have not consulted a
doctor here within the last year.
VOLUNTARY MEDICAL LOANS SERVICE
A loan service staffed by volunteers is provided at the health
centre. Wheelchairs, commodes and other items may be borrowed. For further information telephone (01342) 823316
between 10.00am - 12 noon Monday to Friday. A small deposit is required.
ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY
The accident and emergency units at Kent & Sussex Hospital,
Tunbridge Wells and Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath are open 24 hours a day.
There are Minor Injury Units at local hospitals open as
follows:-
| Crowborough War Memorial Hospital | 8.00am to 8.00pm | | Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead | 8.00am to 10.00pm | | Uckfield Community Hospital | 8.00am to 8.00pm |
Some minor accidents can be dealt
with in the centre's treatment room. A practice nurse is present during normal
hours but doctors are often out. |
