Other Services

Childhood Immunisations:

We advise and encourage that all children should be immunised according to the current national guidelines. This involves immunisations at ages 2, 3, and 4 months; age 12 months, age 13 months, age 4 years, and age 15 years.  Full details of the current immunisation recommendations can be found here.

Foreign Travel Services:

Our practice nurses will be pleased to advise you on the injections needed for travel to any part of the world, along with other relevant information such as precautions to take about drinking water and similar matters.  Please see our Travel Information Page for further details

NB. Not all vaccinations for foreign travel are covered under the NHS.  Some vaccinations will attract a private fee.

Maternity Care:

We offer shared care with the staff of Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. We have attached midwives and run weekly antenatal and postnatal clinics.

Minor Surgery:

Various small operations under local anaesthetic are undertaken at our Jesmond Drive premises.  This service has proved to be beneficial to our patients as this prevents waiting for a hospital appointment.

Elderly Screening Service:

If you are over 75 years of age you will be offered an annual assessment on health and lifestyle issues.  This may be done either by questionnaire, at the surgery or during a home visit.

Screening Services:

As part of our on-going screening processes, you may be invited to attend the surgery even if you are not ill.  For example:

• Teenagers between 14 and 15 years are invited for a health check.
• Women aged 20-60 years are invited routinely for a cervical screening test every 3 years.
• Women aged 50-64 years are invited routinely for mammogram's every 3 years to the breast screening unit at Foresterhill.
• Patients aged over 75 years are offered assessments, either at home or in the surgery.

For more detail regarding National screening programmes please click here.

Non-NHS Work

Most of the services provided within the practice are free under the National Health Service.  However certain examinations/reports are not covered  by the NHS.  FEES ARE CHARGED FOR NON-NHS WORK.

Examples of Non-NHS work include:

• Examinations for special purposes e.g. fitness to drive, or to undertake certain sports.
• Completion of certain forms e.g. holiday cancellation forms, sickness insurance claim forms, private medical insurance claim forms.
• Certain travel vaccinations and anti-malarial tablets

Our current price list for these services can be obtained from Reception or from our Practice Administrator or by clicking here.

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