Clinics & Services

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 and Implanon insertion are available at the Family Planning Clinic in the surgery.
• Maternity Services in the ante natal and post natal period, together with the community midwives.
• Route Immunisation of Children, together with the Health Visiting team.
• Immunisation for adults in relation to travel. Not all travel immunisations are available on the NHS, and the surgery no longer operates a 'travel clinic'. Please enquire at reception for details.
• Cervical Smears - Cervical Screening is by NHS invite. Contact the practice reception to arrange your appointment. 

We also hold contracts with Grampian Primary Care NHS Trust for the following services which may be offered on a face to face or 'remote' basis. We are currently progressing through applicable patient lists and will contact in due course. If you have Asthma or Hypertension please see further information below:

Asthma Clinic

If you have Asthma, the links below may be useful for learning further about your condition and what you can do to improve it. You can check your inhaler technique and download your own asthma plan.

Asthma plans are an important aid for managing your disease, which involves knowing your own "Peak Flow" measurement using a Peak Flow Meter.

A Peak Flow Meter can be prescribed by the surgery on prescription, requested via the prescription phone line. If you already have one then please let us know for our records as this may mean that we can manage your annual asthma review remotely without requirement to attend the surgery.

For further support information visit:

Asthma + Lung UK (asthmaandlung.org.uk) 

RightBreathe

Hypertension Clinic

Please visit the following website for useful information for learning more about your condition and what you can do to improve it. http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou?

Following withdrawal of the Aberdeenshire GP Practice Contractual Agreements to all clinics for Dermatology services, we no longer provide a Dermatology Clinic.

Diabetes Clinic

Please visit the following websites for useful education and management information regarding Prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes: 

https://www.nhsgrampiandiabetes.scot.nhs.uk/prediabetes/

https://www.nhsgrampiandiabetes.scot.nhs.uk/type-2/

https://mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk/

Your Health - Please click on links for further information & resources

• Family Health

• Long Term Conditions

• Minor Illness

• Public Health Scotland News - Current & Recent Health campaigns which includes:

  Quit your way -smoking

  Pneumococcal vaccine

  Be Meningitis Alert & many more. 

• HRT Repeat or Review Prescription Request - Please scan the QR code or click on the link below. 

  

        https://forms.office.com/e/2wHBK9x7j2 - HRT Questionnaire  

• *This questionnaire applies only to patients already taking HRT who require repeat prescription/review. Please call the practice to speak with a clinician if you wish to discuss starting HRT*.
• Unless you are contacted with any further review/repeat query, your prescription will be available from the pharmacy within 5 working days.  Blood pressure reading can be provided by home monitor or visiting a pharmacy that has a self check BP machine.

• Contraception Repeat or Review Prescription Request

  Contraceptive Pill Questionnaire
  
• Contraceptive Pill Questionnaire

• This questionnaire form applies only to patients already taking the contraceptive pill who require repeat prescription/review . Please call the practice to speak with a clinician if you wish to discuss starting contraception. 

• Unless you are contacted with any further review/repeat query, your prescription will be available from the pharmacy within 5 working days. Blood pressure reading can be provided by home monitor or visiting a pharmacy that has a self check BP machine . 

Mental Health Improvement & Wellbeing Service

MSK Self Help or Occupational Therapy Support

Musculoskeletal (MSK) Disorders (e.g. back pain or sports injuries) or for Occupational Therapy support visit: Musculoskeletal Self ManagementAdvice  alternatively you can now self refer by visiting  https://www.mskphysiogrampian.scot.nhs.uk/ or by clicking on the below link:

MSK Physio self referral form

The practice now offers First Contact Physiotherapist via telephone triage consultation for new problems. Please contact the surgery reception for booking.

Non-NHS Services

Some services provided are not covered under our contract with the NHS and therefore either MAY NOT BE PROVIDED or may attract charges. Examples include the following:

• Medicals for pre-employment, and driving requirements (HGV, PSV etc.)
• Insurance claim forms
• Passport signing
• Prescriptions for taking medication abroad
• Private sick notes
• Vaccination certificates

The fees charged are based on the British Medical Association (BMA) suggested scales and our reception staff will be happy to advise you about them along with approximate waiting times for completion.
 

Test Results

Enquiries / Test Results

Enquiry / Test Result telephone number is 0345 337 1150 - Option 3

The practice carries out hundreds of laboratory tests on patients each week.  It is vitally important that patients contact us for these results to make sure they are fully informed and that nothing serious is missed. 

The person doing the test will tell the patient when to contact the surgery for the result, most taking just a few days to come back. We will only give results to someone other than the patient if you (the patient) give your written consent to us, children under 12 excepted.

Do not assume all is well because we did not contact you with the result, you must call to find out for yourself.  It is the patient's responsibility to make sure the you are informed of any test results. 

Please telephone for results between 11:00 and 17:00 Monday to Friday.  Results telephone number is 0345 337 1150 - Option 3

*Blood/Urine/Stool Tests - A consultation with a GP/clinician is required before a sample should be submitted.*

Requests for blood tests, urine or stool samples are subject to prior instruction or authorisation by a Practice GP or Secondary Care (Hospital Department) only.

Any patients requesting additional tests which have not been prior agreed/authorised will be refused and shall require a GP consultation to request.

Blood Tests

A blood test is when a sample of blood is taken for testing in a laboratory. Blood tests have a wide range of uses and are one of the most common types of medical test. For example, a blood test can be used to:

• assess your general state of health
• confirm the presence of a bacterial or viral infection
• see how well certain organs, such as the liver and kidneys, are functioning

A blood test usually involves the Healthcare Support Worker  taking a blood sample from a blood vessel in your arm - the usual place for a sample is the inside of the elbow or wrist where the veins are relatively close to the surface. Blood samples from children are most commonly taken from the back of the hand. The child's hand will be numbed with a special cream before the sample is taken.

X-Ray

An X-ray is a widely used diagnostic test to examine the inside of the body. X-rays are a very effective way of detecting problems with bones, such as fractures. They can also often identify problems with soft tissue such as pneumonia.

If you have a X-ray, you will be asked to lie on a table or stand against a surface so that the part of your body being X-rayed is between the X-ray tube and the photographic plate. This will be performed by a Radiographer - A healthcare professional who specialises in using imaging technology.

Travelling abroad?

Protect your health and check www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk. You'll get all the information you need, including details of any vaccines required

The NHS Grampian Travel Health Service will provide you with all of the information that you require to keep yourself and your family safe.

You will be able to access information about food and water hygiene, insect bite avoidance, vaccinations required and whether you need tablets to help prevent malaria.

Visit www.grampianvax.com for information regarding all vaccines in Grampian. For specific travel page please visit https://www.grampianvax.com/travel-vaccination/

Some travel vaccinations are free on the NHS - diphtheria, tetanus, polio, typhoid, hepatitis A, cholera - but you must make an appointment SIX weeks before you travel to be eligible. Other travel vaccinations will come with a fee; the pharmacist will let you know what this is.