Women’s Health Clinics are run by specially trained and qualified Nurses and a full range of services is available for contraception advice, cervical smears and other routine health checks.

We feel it is important for all women between the ages of 25 and 64 to have regular cervical smears.

Those who require urgent advice about emergency contraception should contact either the Practice Nurse or the Doctor.

Separate Clinics are run for HRT and continence advice.

Please contact reception for further information or to book an appointment.

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.

Alternatively, these services are readily available at certain Pharmacies and Private Clinics – contact your local pharmacy for more information.

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.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

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Further Information

The following websites will give you additional travel advice.

The Tissue Viability Service, run by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, is a specialist nursing service for anyone with complex wounds or wounds that are taking a long time to heal. This includes surgical wounds, leg ulcers or pressure ulcers.

The service carries out assessments and identifies any problems that may be delaying wounds from healing and/or are becoming a source of infection and identifies and carries out the treatment required. The assessments and treatment are carried out by nurses with specialist knowledge, skills and experience in wound care and tissue viability and can take place in a variety of locations; in your own home, at a care home, clinic, GP surgery, or hospice. The service also offers telephone advice.

Referrals to the service can be made from the GP practice/care home/community nursing team/hospice/hospital.  

The service itself operates Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm.

Please contact reception for further information on blood tests.

The Doctors are able to complete private medical insurance claim forms and private certificates and to carry out medical examinations for insurance, driving, employment and sport, at their discretion.

These do not form part of their NHS work and therefore a fee is payable.

Please contact reception for further information on these services, and their respective prices.

RNID do free appointment only clinics.

RNID Services:

Cleaning
Re-Tubing
Batteries
Information & Advice

For those with who require aftercare for an Audiology, St Marys Hospital provided hearing aid, they should contact 01983 552205.

For Specsavers provided hearing aids, they should contact 01983 821280 for all aftercare needs.

Our doctors can carry out certain minor operations and this will often avoid the need for a hospital attendance.

Please make a telephone appointment to discuss this with your Doctor in the first instance.

We offer various Nurse-led clinics for long term conditions such as Diabetes, Anti-Coagulation, Asthma & COPD.

 All clinics are appointment based.

These are done by appointment with the Practice Nurse

Please contact reception for further information or to book an appointment.

We are collaborating with Healthy.io to make albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR) testing easier and more convenient, by allowing you to test from home using a smartphone.

As you know as part of your diabetes annual review, urine testing is really important to for early signs of kidney damage. If you meet the criteria for this new service, you will receive a text message (or letter) about this testing process, which is run by Healthy.io.