Clinics & Services

Along with the routine appointments, the practice offers the following services:

Family Planning – Please ask reception to be booked in with the relevant clinician

Immunisations – The nursing team are responsible for the administration of both adult and child immunisations.

Travel Immunisations – The nursing team are able to provide the required vaccinations / medications available on the NHS.  Please review our website or ask reception for a travel questionnaire.  Travel questionnaires are required to be submitted a minimum of 6 weeks before you travel.

Cervical Smear Testing – This is carried out by the nursing team an should be done every three years for women aged between 25 and 50 and every five years for women aged between 50 and 65.  You will be contacted by a central administration team when you are due a test; this is a preventative test, aimed at stopping cancer before it starts.

Chronic Disease Management – We hold a range of clinics to help our patients manage the following:

• Respiratory
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular disease
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Dementia reviews

Joint Injections – Dr Cruickshank provides a joint injection clinic for patients registered at the surgery.  Patients will speak to a GP in the first instance and are placed on a waiting list.

Maternity Services: Please note that patients can access the early bird service at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust as early as five weeks pregnant and self-refer for an appointment without having to see the GP.  The referral form and email address can be accessed via https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/patients-visitors/our-services/maternity/finding-out-your-pregnant/

We also offer the following services:

• Antenatal clinic – provided by the community midwife at the surgery.
• Post-natal mother and baby check – provided by the GP at the surgery
• Smoking cessation – hosted service provided by Public Health
• Phlebotomy – hosted service provided by East & North Herts NHS Trust
• Anticoagulation – hosted service provided by Herts Community NHS Trust
• Hertfordshire Wellbeing Service – hosted service provided by Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust. Patients can self refer via the following link https://www.iaptportal.co.uk/ServiceUser/SelfReferralForm.aspx?sd=7786d2d0-c021-415d-b8a9-b2a50ab8e22e

From time to time, other services may be available such as raising awareness of a particular disease or condition. We will advertise this information on our website and within the practice.