If you would like to attend or use any of these services, please book an appointment by visiting our Consulting Room.

If you would like to review or assess your existing health condition, you can use our Health Assessments and Reviews Clinic.

Our practice offers the following clinics and healthcare services in addition to GP consultations:

• Antenatal/postnatal, by routine appointment. The postnatal 6-8 week check are for mum and baby, and this will be a 30 minute appointment
• Asthma/COPD, by invitation from or appointment with nurse
• Child immunisations, by appointment with nurse
• Cryotherapy, by appointment with nurse
• Counselling
• Contraception/family planning, including coil fitting and implants by appointment
• Diabetes, by invitation from nurse
• Health visitors on Thursday mornings, by appointment
• Heart disease, by invitation or appointment with nurse
• Travel vaccinations, by appointment with nurse
• Vascular health checks, by appointment with nurse

All Berrylands Surgery patients attending clinics listed below, will be seen at our sister surgery, Canbury Medical Centre.

Minor surgery

Minor surgery for minor skin lesions such as moles andsmalls lumps can be performed at our sister surgery, Canbury Medical Centre, by one of our doctors. Please see any doctor first so that suitability can be assessed. Minor surgery clinics are on Tuesday mornings.

Stop smoking service

If you would like to book a Kick-It smoking cessation course with an advisor, please inform reception. Kick-It is a free stop smoking service, which provides:

• Expert support
• 6 one to one sessions in person or over the phone
• GP, pharmacy and community locations near you
• Up to 12 weeks worth of free nicotine replacement

Alternatively if you cannot commit to a 6 week programme, but would also like some support in quitting smoking, then we can provide you with a quit kit, which is a box full of helpful tools and advice on how to quit smoking successfully. You can also access 2 weeks free Nicotine Replacement Therapy, also known as NRT.

Weight management service

There are a various different weight management programmes in the local area, in which our clinical staff can refer you onto and give further details on. Alternatively, you can call the Kingston Healthy Lifestyles team on 0208 547 6815.

For adults:

• Weight watchers, 12 weeks free
• Slimming world, 12 weeks free
• Weigh-to-go, 10 weeks free
• Get active, 12 week exercise programme at a subsidised rate
• Fit as a fiddle, 6 weeks free exercise programme, aged 50+

For children:

• Fun Factor – 5-7 year olds
• Fwd Factor – 8-11 year olds
• 4-U Factor – 12-15 year olds
• B-U Factor – 16-19 year olds

Referrals

The BMA, NHS England, and the National Association for Patient Participation have developed a patient leaflet which describes what patients can expect if their GP refers them to see a specialist or consultant, at a hospital or a community centre.

The leaflet also provides a helpful checklist for patients to use before they leave hospital. If you are unsure about any of the questions in the checklist, please make sure you discuss them with a member of staff before you leave hospital:

• Patient Referral Leaflet

Influenza

Annual protection against influenza is offered to patients aged 65 and over, and those at high risk. This includes patients suffering with chronic heart disease, asthma, COPD and diabetes.

Shingles

To find out if your are eligible for Shingles immunisation, please visit the shingles awareness website.

Travel vaccinations

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel, you need to complete the Travel Risk Assessment Form, for which you must be a registered patient. This can be collected from the admin team at reception or filled in online. The nurse will then determine what vaccinations are needed.

If you filled the form in online, we will contact you by phone to make the appointment. If you hand it into reception, we will book you an appointment there and then to secure an appointment. If the nurse then believes you don’t need any vaccinations, we will not contact you. If you are unsure, please contact the surgery.

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible, ideally at least 6 weeks before you travel, as some vaccinations are a course and need to be administered over 3-6 weeks. Most vaccines take will 10-14 days to work.

Please remember that as travel advice and vaccinations are non NHS Services, we cannot prioritise these over other NHS based nursing appointments.