APPOINTMENTS FOR THE FOLLOWING CLINICS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.  PLEASE ASK AT RECEPTION
 
Routine smear clinic
Well person clinic
Family planning clinic
Asthma clinic
Spirometry
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Smoking cessation
Diabetic clinic  (it is advisable that patients have a blood test prior to attending this clinic)
Coronary heart disease  (it is advisable that patients have a blood test prior to attending this clinic) 
 

If your doctor has told you that you can ring up for the results of blood  or urine tests please ring the surgery after 11.00 am. 
 
The results of smear tests are posted to you.

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements.  This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.  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

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible  - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations.  These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine.  Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge.  This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

Travel Health Questionnaire

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

Travel Questionnaire

Vaccination Schedule

Click here  to see vaccines that are routinely offered to everyone in the UK for free on the NHS

Statement of intent - IT requirement

New contractual requirements mean that GP practices should make a statement of intent in relation to the following IT developments:

• Summary Care Record (SCR)
• GP to GP record transfers
• Patient online access to their GP record

Summary Care Record (SCR)

Kilmeny Group Medical practice confirm that SCR are updated automatically via our clinical system on a daily basis

GP to GP Record Transfers  

NHS England requires all practises to use the electronic GP2GP facility for the transfer of patient records between GP practices when a patient changes practice.

Kilmeny Group Medical Practice confirms that GP to GP record transfers are now in place.

Patient Online Access to their GP record

NHS England requires practices to offer the facility to enable patients to access online appointments, prescriptions, allergies and adverse reactions before 31 March 2015.

Online appointment booking and cancelling and prescriptions are already in place. Kilmeny Group Medical Practice confirms that access to medical records is now in place. 

Click here fore more information on NHS systems

Data Protection

Record keeping in the practice is computerised.  The practice is registered with the data protection agency.  We take our responsibilities for keeping your records private, very seriously. Your medical records are kept on a strictly confidential basis. You have a right of access to your medical records.

Access to your medical records by clinicians outside the team (for example hospital doctors) is only with your explicit consent.  Access to other agencies, for example solicitors and insurance companies is only with your written consent. 

Click here for more information on the Data Protection Act

Care.Data

Care.data is a programme of work led by NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre which will bring together securely, health and social care information from different settings in order to see what’s working really well in the NHS – and what we could be doing better. Using data in this way is known as data sharing for purposes beyond direct care, and the information will only be shared if it will benefit patient care.

Click here for more information

Violence Statement 

The practice has a zero tolerance policy to violent and abusive behaviour from patients towards any member of the practice team or any persons present on the practice premises or the place where treatment is being provided.  

Patients behaving in such a manner will be asked to leave the premises and will be removed from the practice list

Self Certification

You only require a sick note if you have been off for more than 7 days. For the first 7 days of illness, you are required to complete a self certification form. GPs are not allowed to issue medical certificates for the first 7 days of an illness.

If your employer insists on a medical certificate for the first 7 days, a private sick note can be issued by the GP. Please note a charge will be made for this.

If you do not qualify for statutory sick pay or statutory sick pay runs out and you are still unwell, you should ask your employer to complete form SSP1 and send it to the local JobCentre Plus  to claim for Incapacity Benefit.

We are a training practice and have GP registrars working at the practice.  GP Registrars are fully qualified doctors experienced in hospital medicine who join us for 6 to 12 months to gain experience in general practice.  We also undertake the training of medical students, student nurses and health visitors.