These clinics offer facilities for cervical smear, breast examination, blood pressure checks, urine testing, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) advice and family planning. The Scottish Cervical Call Recall System recalls all women every three years.
Well Woman Appointments. Practice Nurses every day except Thursday.
The practice offers travel advice to patients travelling outwith the UK who may require vaccination. We would encourage you to check which vaccines may be required by checking the Fit for Travel website.
Please note that we do not accept travel requests less than 2 weeks prior to travel.
We would advise you to contact a private travel clinic below.
| Ochilview Travel Clinic, Falkirk | 01324 715876 |
| Gecko travel Clinic, Airthrey Park Medical Centre, Stirling | 01786 845542 07769172357 |
| City Doc, 1094 Argyle Street, Glasgow | |
| The Travel Clinic (Glasgow), near Glasgow Airport | 0141 848 4800 |
| Brownlee Travel Clinic, Gartnavel, Glasgow | 0141 300 1130 |
| Masta Travel Clinic, Mitchell Street, Glasgow | 0141 221 4224 |
| Masta Travel Clinic, Quality Street, Edinburgh | 0131 336 3038 |
| Edinburgh Travel Health Clinic, Newington, Edinburgh | 0131 667 1030 |
| Adventure Travel Clinic, Leith, Edinburgh | 0131 561 1945 |
| The Specialist Travel Clinic Ward 41 Western General Hospital Edinburgh | 01315372822 |
If you require a prescription for vaccinations this will be ready to collect 3 working days following your appointment.
In many tropical countries, mosquitoes can spread diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, West Nile, malaria, yellow fever and Zika. Here are five simple rules you should follow to reduce your risk of infections spread by mosquitoes.
The Travel Health Organisations section on this website has lots of useful links to help you.
We offer the travel health service. However, the NHS does not cover the cost of all the treatments you may need. Therefore, for some services you may need to pay additional charges.
Malaria Tablets are NOT provided on the NHS and sometimes can be bought over the counter or may require a private prescription. The nurse can advise regarding this, or you could discuss with your pharmacist. REMEMBER some tablets have to be started at least one week before you travel, and you need continue to take them when you return to the UK for the advised length of time.
The practice nurse offers smoking cessation advice and support. Please ask for an appointment.
Local pharmacies also provide a Stop Smoking service.
Certain services are not provided by the General Practitioners as part of our NHS Contract. These include medical certificates for periods of illness of less than 7 days, insurance claim forms and medicals for Large Goods Vehicle (LGV), Passenger Service Vehicle (PSV), driving, pre employment etc.
You should make an appointment to see your Midwife or GP before you are 10 weeks pregnant.
To see your Midwife, you should telephone Forth Valley Royal Hospital Maternity Unit, Monday to Friday 8.30am to 12 noon and 12.30pm to 2pm, on 01324 567146 or email preqnantfv@nhs.net and ask for a booking appointment with the Midwife.
There are four type of nursing service available at the practice:
Our Practice Nurses run the heart disease, hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, smoking cessation, well woman, travel and well person clinics by appointment.
A Health Visitor is a State Registered Nurse who has undergone further training. They are based in the Health Centre and can be contacted by telephone on 01324 815 105.
The Health Visitor is in the front line of preventative care and the early detection of ill health, especially with young children and babies.
They may be able to help with family problems or enable you to find the right person for support or help you require. They are is concerned with the health of the whole community. They may work jointly with social work and / or community psychiatric nurses providing care for vulnerable groups or situations.
The Health Centre has a fully equipped shared Treatment Room. A nurse is available to take ear syringing, injections, dressings etc. The treatment room nurse will only see patients if they have an appointment Referral to this clinic is made by GP only.
If you experiencing low mood, anxiety, trouble sleeping or controlling your emotions then the mental health nurse can offer an assessment, guidance, tools and support. They can also provide medication or refer you to specialist mental health services.
Clinics are run all day Tuesday, Wednesday morning and all day Thursday.
A well equipped treatment room enables us to carry out some minor operations within the surgery.
We believe in proactive care, which means protecting against infectious diseases by immunisation, detecting illness early by screening and providing appropriate education. We particularly wish to target coronary heart disease and stroke.
An influenza (flu) vaccination is particularly recommended for patients with heart, lung or kidney disease, diabetes and residents of nursing and care homes. An invitation letter will be sent to all patients aged over 65 years. If you are in any of the at-risk categories please contact the surgery each September for the flu vaccination.
Further information can be found in our Influenza Health Guide.
