Clinics & Services
Antenatal and Postnatal Care
Please confirm your pregnancy with the doctor but the clinics are run by community midwives. A doctor is present at most antenatal clinics.
Childhood and Routine Vaccinations
Are you up to date with your tetanus and polio immunisation? Ask the nurse.
Well Baby and Child Development Checks
A planned programme of developmental checks is provided up to the age of five. The community health visitor runs some clinics.
Family Planning
We provide a full range of contraceptive services, including coil (IUD), cap (diaphragm) fitting and Implanon fittings. Make an appointment with the doctor.
Cervical Smears
Cervical smears are recommended routinely every three years for all women between the age of 25 and 65 years (except those who have had a hysterectomy).
Asthma Clinic - See the nurse or a doctor.
Diabetic Clinic - See the nurse or a doctor.
High Blood Pressure and Angina Clinic - See the nurse or a doctor.
Immunisation for Foreign Travel
Please see the nurse at least 10 weeks before the intended date of travel.
Minor Operations
Certain surgical procedures are carried out within the medical centre in our well equipped treatment room. See the doctor for assessment first.
Wart and Verruca Clinic - By appointment with the nurse.
Advice on Immunisation
We strongly recommend that all children and babies are immunised against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, MMR and HIB. Thankfully, these serious illnesses are rarely seen nowadays due to the high uptake of vaccination.
Whooping cough (pertussis) causes a very distressing illness with severe prolonged coughing and can cause permanent lung damage. Risk from this vaccination has been greatly overstated in the past. We strongly recommend that all babies have this vaccination along with their other baby jabs, unless there is a clear medical contraindication. If you have any worries or queries about any aspect of your child’s immunisation please ask the doctor or nurses.
SEXUAL HEALTH CLINIC
Full sexual health screening is available at The Dove Medical Practice by an experienced team headed up by Dr Ted Hiscock, who has spent over 30 years studying and treating sexually transmitted infections.
From the relaxed environment of a general practice premises, where total confidentiality is protected and personal and private matters can be discussed with no fear of judgement or intimidation, all conditions are treated and health advice given along the guidelines as carried out in traditional sexual health clinics such as Hawthorne House, Heartlands Hospital and Whittall Street Clinic. A system of 48 hour appointments is now offered and there are both male and female doctors and nurses who run the clinic.