Lyngford Park Surgery - The clinics and other services offered by our doctors surgery

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Please note that the Private Travel Clinic service ceased with effect from 1 June 2017
You can also book appointments and order repeat medication online - ask at Reception. We want to offer you more choice and more convenience.
The practice offers appointments 5 days a week and up until 20:00 on Tuesdays (and some Wednesdays) - Remember, you can book an appointment up to 6 weeks in advance or, if you prefer, ring on the day.
Out of Hours - NHS 111 - This service is for when you need medical help fast but it is not a 999 emergency.

Clinics

Clinics

We prefer you to make appointments for our specialist services via the reception.

Asthma

We offer a range of times during the week.

Smear Tests

These are 20 minute appointments, available at a range of times throughout the week.

Antenatal Clinic

pregnant11 The midwife holds a clinic on Mondays.

Diabetic Clinic

Clinics are held on a Thursday with the diabetic nurse, Sister Alison Turner.

Stop Smoking Clinic

Available in the surgery, you can see the stop smoking adviser between 5pm and 7.30pm on Tuesdays. Make an appointment through Reception.

Dietician

Available in the surgery, you can see the dietician by referral from your doctor. The clinics are held once a month, and are by appointment.

Family Planning

All the doctors and nurses are happy to discuss this and nearly all forms of contraception can be provided from the surgery.

Emergency and confidential advice is available at all times, by appointment.

Immunisations

vaccination3 Children are notified by the Patient & Practitioner Services at the Primary Care Trust when they need to come for immunisation or check–ups. Clinics are held each week on a Wednesday morning.

If you plan to go abroad please contact us well in advance as it may take 2 months, or more, to fit in a full course of immunisations (see the travel page).

Minor Surgery

Minor surgical procedures are carried out in the practice under local anaesthetic. Your own doctor will arrange this for you.

Menopause and HRT

All the doctors are able to give advice on these topics.

Chiropody

We host a private clinic on Friday afternoons. You can arrange an appointment through reception. A 20 minute sessions costs £25.

Physiotherapist

Weekly clinics are held at the surgery. Patients need to be referred by the doctor.

Pharmacist

We have a Pharmacist, Clare Cannon, in the practice 4 day per week, if you wish to discuss your medication. Please book an appointment with the reception team. Click here for more information

Clinical Pharmacist

Our clinical pharmacist, Clare Cannon, supports our practice team in several ways:

To respond to patient queries about repeat prescriptions
To support patients who have had medication changes after discharge from hospital
To carry out annual medication reviews for patients on repeat prescriptions
To monitor patients with long term conditions who take medications
To monitor and adjust medications for patients with high blood pressure and other long term conditions

Our doctors have asked our reception team to recommend to patients that routine annual medication reviews are undertaken by our clinical pharmacist.

Community Services

The following professionals also provide services for our patients:

nurse_with_baby2 Health Visitors
tel 0300 3230115

District Nurse
tel 0300 323 0026

Midwife
Non-urgent queries or for appointments: 01823 343586 and leave a message

Urgent queries: Ring Musgrove Park Hospital 01823 333444 and ask for Willow or Bracken Ward.

Charges for Private (Non-NHS) Services

August 2018

Certificates/Reports

Service / Request	Paid by	Fee
Elderly Driver/Seat Belt Exemption (no examination)	Requester	£47.00
Holiday Cancellation Form	Requester	£25.00
Sickness Claim Form	Requester	£25.00
Personal Accident Claim Form	Requester	£25.00
Vitality Health Insurance Form	Requester	£25.00
OFSTED Report	Requester	£90.00
Medical Certificate of Fact (GP signature)	Requester	£18.00
Parachute Form	Requester	£25.00
School Fees Refund Form	Requester	£25.00
Private Medical Certificate/Private Sick Note	Requester	£15.00
Private letters for patients (including fitness to travel/gym without examination)	Requester	£15.00 -£25.00
Fitness to Travel	Requester	£40.00
Army Medical Form	Army	£65.00
Firearms Licence	Requester	£25.00

Access to Medical Records

Service / Request	Paid by	Fee
Copy of computerised records	Patient	£10.00 - £20.00
Copy of computerised and manual records	Patient	£20.00 - £30.00

Detailed letters/reports (priced individually)

There is no obligation on the doctor to undertake targeted reports.

Medical Examinations

Service / Request	Paid by	Fee
DVLA	DVLA	£85.00 (exam) £40.00 (report)
HGV	Patient	£155.00
Sports Medical	Patient	£155.00
Taxi Driver Medical	Patient	£100.00
PSV	Patient	£155.00
Pre-employment Medical with Report	Employer	£172.00
Fostering/Adoption (BAAF) Prospective Carer	Fostering agency	£73.86

Solicitors/Other

Service / Request	Paid by	Fee
Assessment of Capacity Report (with examination)	Requester	£120.00
Assessment of Capacity Report (without examination)	Requester	£80.00
Assessment of Capacity Report (home visit)	Requester	£150.00
Power of Attorney (with examination)	Requester	£120.00
Power of Attorney (without examination)	Requester	£80.00

All medicals must be paid for upon booking the appointment (non-refundable if patient fails to attend the appointment or cancels at less than 2 hours’ notice).

Other prices for non-NHS funded work available on request.

Non-chargeable

Med 3 (fitness to work certificate after day 7 of sickness period)
Prescription Exemption form
Council Tax Exemption form
Concessionary Travel Pass
Police request to access Medical Records where disclosure is for the purpose of the prevention or detection of a crime. The police representative must demonstrate that the police authority require the information for the purposes of investigating a crime and have statutory exemption form the fee provisions under the Crime and Disorder Act.
Requests from Somerset County Council regarding safeguarding concerns are not chargeable

Please note that the doctors cannot provide the following services:

(The doctors regret that they do not have sufficient time to offer these services)

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Character reference

We offer a limited range of travel vaccines at Lyngford Park Surgery. We can provide some NHS vaccines if needed including Hepatitis A, tetanus, diphtheria and polio and also Typhoid vaccine. We do not offer private vaccines such as Rabies, Japanese Encephalitis or prescriptions for anti-malarial tablets. You will need to access these from a private travel clinic .

You can find information on what is recommended for your holiday at https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/home

Select the destinations tab and search for your destination then scroll down to the immunisations section. It is worth knowing that most travel related illnesses are NOT vaccine preventable, for example dengue fever or travellers’ diarrhoea. There is plenty of advice on the website to help with this such as insect bite avoidance and food and water hygiene.

If you wish to book an appointment for travel vaccinations please fill out a form by clicking below or from reception and book an appointment at least 6 weeks before you travel.