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SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM THE PRACTICE

All GP practices are contracted to provide "essential services", that is, basic treatment of ill people. We also provide the following "additional services":

Child health surveillance, together with the health visiting team.

Contraceptive services.
(Specialist services such as IUCD insertion are available at any Family Planning Clinic).

Maternity services, in the antenatal and postnatal period, together with the midwives from the Southern General Hospital. Routine immunisation of children, together with the health visiting team.

Cervical smears

We also hold contracts with GGNHSB for the following “enhanced
services”:

An annual flu immunisation programme to protect the elderly and at risk.

Regular monitoring, by blood and urine tests, for patients on a range of drugs for arthritis and bowel problems.

Annual comprehensive reviews for patients with heart disease.

Annual comprehensive review for patients with diabetes; this includes appointments with the dietician and podiatrist.

A methadone substitution programme for patients with drug abuse problems.

Routine appointments are available every day in the am and pm (excl Tuesday pm).

Medical emergency appointments are available every day in the am and pm (excl Tuesday pm). If you need an urgent appointment you will be seen as soon as possible on that day. Please help the receptionists by telling them whether or not your problem is urgent. The surgery is open continuously from 8.30am-6.00pm (excluding Tuesday when the surgery is open from 8.30am - 12 noon). Consultations are between 9.00 and 11.30am and 2.00 and 6.00pm. If you have not been seen at the surgery for three years (or one year for those over 75) you can request a check-up appointment if you wish.

Travel Clinic

Ailsa Travel Clinic was opened in 1998. We use the most accurate on-line travel medicine databases and offer up-to-date advice and all the necessary immunisations for both business and leisure travellers. We have been approved by the Department of Health to immunise travellers against yellow fever and to supply an International Certificate of Vaccination. We are well aware of the budget pressures on most travellers and have kept our prices as low as possible. Please remember to organise your immunisations well in advance of your trip - preferably no later than six weeks before departure.