What’s on offer?

The Surgery provides the following services for all registered patients:

Help staying healthy

• Advice on preventing illness
• Advice on managing a long-term health condition
• Cervical screening (smear tests)
• Contraceptive services (emergency and routine)
• Childhood immunisations
• Travel vaccinations and advice

Specialist services

• Womens’ health
• Mens’ health
• Child health
• Cardiovascular care including:
  - anticoagulant dosing
  - ischaemic heart disease screening, prevention and management
  - other circulatory disease screening, prevention and management
• Treatment for minor injuries and illnesses including wounds, cuts, bruises, sprains, strains and minor burns.
• Pregnancy testing
• Antenatal (pregnancy) care
• Smoking cessation service
• Diabetes clinic
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinic
• Asthma clinic
• Chronic kidney disease monitoring
• Palliative (end of life) care
• Health screening
• Cholesterol and blood sugar testing
• Blood pressure checks

Travel Vaccinations

In order that we know in advance of your appointment what you will require, we ask you to complete a travel questionnaire with details of where you are travelling (printable version at bottom of page)We will then contact you to arrange an appointment with the practice nurse.

It is best to see the nurse about six weeks before you travel. If you are travelling at short notice the nurses will try to help you, but if they cannot, they will recommend that you contact a travel clinic such as one of those listed below. All these charge for all services

The following travel immunisations are available on the NHS at the surgery:

• Hepatitis A
• Diptheria, tetanus and polio
• Typhoid
• Cholera

Highcroft Surgery does not pro vide the following travel immunisations. They can be obtained from the travel clinics listed below:

• Rabies
• Yellow Fever
• Tick-borne and Japanese B Encephalitis
• BCG, i.e protection against tuberculosis
• Meningitis ACWY

There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Caribbean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

Most travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because travel vaccination is not included in the services provided by the NHS and therefore is a chargeable service.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.

Travel Questionnaire

Travelling in Europe

If you are travelling to Europe a very useful booklet has been published with advice and guidance to help you get the most out of your holiday. To visit please click:- http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/86/en.pdf (this is a large document and may take a minute or two to view)

Local Travel Clinics:

NHS Walk-In Centre, London Road, Nottingham - Tel: 0115 8838500 to book an appointment. There will be a charge for vaccinations

Traveldoc, Regent Street, Nottingham - Tel: 0800 583 3331.

BUPA Wellness - 0115 8793600

Useful Websites:

http://www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/

http://www.nathnac.org/

http://www.malaria-reference.co.uk/

Sickness Certificates

You do not require a doctor's sickness certificate for any illness lasting seven days or less. Your employer may however require you to complete a self-certification form (SC2) which is available from your employer or on the HMRC website.

Evidence that you are sick

If you are sick for more than seven days, your employer can ask you to give them some form of medical evidence to support payment of SSP (statutory sick pay).

It is up to your employer to decide whether you are incapable of work. A medical certificate, now called a 'Statement of Fitness for Work’ (see below) from your doctor is strong evidence that you are sick and would normally be accepted, unless there is evidence to prove otherwise.

You could also provide evidence from someone who is not a medical practitioner, e.g. a dentist. Your employer will decide whether or not this evidence is acceptable. If your employer has any doubts, they may still ask for a medical certificate from your GP.

Statement of Fitness for Work - ’Fit Note'

The 'fit note' was introduced on 6 April 2010. With your employer's support, the note will help you return to work sooner by providing more information about the effects of your illness or injury.

For more information see the DirectGov website (where this information was sourced)

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