Barrack Lane Medical Centre - The clinics and other services offered by our doctors surgery

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Named GP

All patients registered at Barrack Lane Medical Centre hold a practice wide registration. This means you can elect to be seen at either Barrack Lane or Stoke Park site. Every patient is allocated a named GP, but this does not prevent you from seeing the clinician of your choice if they have availability. If you would like more details please contact us or ask at reception.

When you need to be seen...

We will offer you a same day appointment with a member of our On the Day Team. Appointments can be arranged by calling the surgery direct or can be booked on line. Our On the Day team are supported by a designated Duty Doctor who is available for urgent problems.

To save a time consuming trip to the surgery...

Our clinicians are available each day for telephone consultations and to provide advice.

When you need a follow-up appointment or are asked to come back...

Our reception staff will organise a telephone assessment for you, with a clinician of your choice, who will call you back to discuss your needs and arrange a face to face appointment if you agree that one is needed.

Keep or Cancel

Patients who do not attend for their appointments cost the National Health Service many millions of pounds each year.

If you cannot attend an appointment for any reason please inform us as soon as possible in order for us to give the slot to someone else.

You can also text us to cancel your appointment on:

07757 006431 Barrack Lane

07757 006363 Stoke Park

By giving us as much notice as you can you are helping us to make sure that someone else is given your slot.

Out of Hours

For urgent advice after the surgery has closed, during the night and at weekends dial 111 for the Out of Hours Service for Suffolk. Calls to this service are free of charge from both landlines and mobiles.

Test Results

Specimens need to be dropped in at the reception desk by 12 noon so that we can send the samples off to the laboratories. Please ring for results after 2.30pm when the surgery is less busy.

NHS Services Offered

CCC [Continuing Care Clinic]

Specialist clinics, run by highly trained nurses, are available to provide support and blood-pressure continuing care to patients living with many long term medical conditions.

We are very proud of our practice-nurse led CCC or continuing care clinic which has paved the way for the Practice achieving maximum quality points in the government's QOF [Quality and Outcomes Framework] initiative for the third consecutive year. In 2008 we were the only practice to have achieved that honour in Ipswich, and one of only a handful in East Suffolk.

The clinics serve people with a variety of Long Term Conditions and include:

CHD [Coronary Heart Disease] and Heart Failure
Stroke
Hypertension [High Blood Pressure]
Chronic Kidney Disease
Diabetes
Asthma
COPD [Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease]
Epilepsy
Hypothyroidism [Underactive Thyroid]

Smoking Cessation

Our practice nurses are trained to help you quit smoking and have contributed to getting hundreds of people to give it up. Did you know that Nicotine Replacement Therapy [NRT] is available on prescription in the NHS? This makes it MUCH cheaper to get it from the clinic on prescription than to buy it yourself from the chemist. Obviously it is FREE if you don't pay for your prescriptions. We can also prescribe tablets to get you off the cigarettes if need be.

So go on! Why not give it a go? An appointment can be booked morning, afternoons or evenings!

Contraceptive Services

Full services are provided by the doctors and practice nurses. These include oral contraceptives, coils, caps, injections and implants.

Child Development Assessments

The doctors undertake developmental assessments on children at the age of 6 weeks. Our health visitors are also actively involved in monitoring child development and undertake regular routine checkups.

Finally, all children are offered pre-school checks with the doctor before their fifth birthday.

Maternity Services

All the partners are trained in antenatal care, postnatal care, contraceptive services, minor surgery and the developmental assessment of children. Our doctors all offer antenatal and postnatal appointments.

We have 3 midwives who hold their clinics at both Barrack Lane and Stoke Park

Minor Injury Service

bandaging-wrist The Practice now offers a minor injury service. Should you suffer a minor injury please telephone the surgery as soon as possible and we will arrange for you to be seen.

Minor Surgery

Minor surgery and wart removal may be performed at the surgery by arrangement with your doctor.

Phlebotomy Service

The practice offers a phlebotomy service 5 days a week. if you require a blood test, our Health Care Assistant, Julia Johnson, holds clinics at both Barrack Lane and Stoke Park Medical Centre.

Teen Service

The practice is aware of the needs of young adults and provides a friendly confidential service for conditions such as smoking, acne, obesity, stress, eating disorders and family problems, as well as issues to do with safe sex, alcohol and drugs. Please make an appointment with a doctor or practice nurse.

Useful teen health websites:

Non NHS Services

Not all services provided by the Practice are paid for under the National Health scheme and a charge is therefore made.

non nhs services These include:

insurance forms
holiday cancellation forms
medical reports/examinations
fitness to travel certificates
private prescriptions
some vaccination services though most travel injections are free

Information concerning our fees is available from reception. All charges are in line with British Medical Association Guidelines.

Fees for Non-NHS Services

(Please note these fees are correct at time of publishing and are subject to change)

MEDICALS (£40 non refundable deposit to be paid in advance to secure appointment)
Confined Spaces Medical	£95
HGV/LGV/PSV Medical	£95
Taxi Medical	£95
Adoption Medical	£73.86
Police Medical	£95
Pre-employment medicals	£95
Sports Medical	£95
INSURANCE/ADMIN (to be paid for in full in advance of completion
Claim forms:
Fitness to attend school (Letter/certificate)	£20
Fitness to do sports (Letter/Certificate)	£20
Freedom from infection certificate	£20
Holiday insurance claim form (certificate, cancellation etc)	£20
Insurance claim forms (Mortgage, loans, sickness etc)	£20
Ofstead Health declaration form	£25
Written Medical Reports for 3rd Parties	Variable fees
CLINICAL APPOINTMENT (10 MINUTES)
DNA/Drug/Alcohol testing (per patient)	£30
Private consultation with Doctor	£30
Private consultation with Nurse	£20
Private Blood tests:
Haematology	£30
Biochemistry	£35
Hepatitis B immunity	£30
Blood grouping (per patient)	£30

Travel Clinic

As we buy vaccinations in, many travel immunisations are FREE to our patients.

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurses 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

Certain vaccines do incur a charge, for example, Hepatitis B, Rabies, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, Tick-Borne Encephalitis. Some of these vaccinations are rather expensive and have to be ordered in specially, so please enquire about the charge first.

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Carribean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

It is important to make this appointment as early as possible - at least 8 weeks before you travel.

Click on the links below for more information before you travel:

8 weeks to Go Fit for Travel Malaria Hot Spots

Travel Health Questionnaire

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

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Occupational Health Services

Dr Dipika Thakerar holds qualifications in Occupational Health and is the practice lead in this field.

We currently provide services to both local and national businesses, which include Pre-employment medicals, long term sickness assessments, return to work advice and guidance regarding Health & Safety and ergonomics.

contact

For further information regarding these services, please contact the Practice Manager, Penny Ashbee, on 01473 252827.

Teen Service
The practice is aware of the needs of young adults and provides a friendly confidential service for conditions such as smoking, acne, obesity, stress, eating disorders and family problems, as well as issues to do with safe sex, alcohol and drugs. Please make an appointment with a doctor or practice nurse.

Useful teen health websites: