FARNHAM DENE MEDICAL PRACTICE
- HALE ROAD, FARNHAM CENTRE FOR HEALTH
GU9 9QS FARNHAM, SURREY
Phone: 01252 730100
Fax: 01252 716336
www.farnhamdene.com
Short profile:
Travel advice and immunisations are available with the Practice Nurse. Please allow 8 weeks before travelling to arrange your vaccinations. These immunisations are payable in advance. If you come to your appointment without payment you will be unable to have your immunisations. The Surgery accepts cheques or cash payments.
Teenage Sexual Health: Advice can be given by the Practice Nurse on the telephone or appointments are available in the Family Plannng Clinic. Please remember we are here to listen and not to tell. Please be assured that all issues will be dealt with sensitively and in confidence. Menopause Advice and HRT checks: If you wish to discuss or ask advice on any aspect of the menopause or HRT please make a routine appointment with the doctor or the Practice Nurse.
Spirometry Clinic: Lung function tests as requested by the doctor. Minor Surgery: We provide minor surgery procedures in our treatment room, which includes removal of lumps and bumps.
Detailed description:
The Practice Nurses hold weekly INR clinics to provide a one-stop test and result service for patients on Warfarin. The Practice Nurses hold immunisation clinics weekly for childhood immunisations. Adult immunisations are also available with the practice nurse. You need to have a tetanus and polio booster every ten years. We also offer flu vaccine each year from October to patients in the at risk groups. We offer a full family planning service including the pill, diaphragms, coil fitting and full emergency contraceptive services. All partners offer pre-conception advice. Chronic Disease Appointments: These are done by some of our appropriately trained nurses for diseases such as heart disease, asthma, COPD, hypertension and stroke.
Child Health: We offer a child development check at 6-8 weeks of age. Cervical Smears: Our female patients should have regular cervical smears. We have a recall system in the practice for this and are also linked to the regions computerised recall system. Please arrange appointments with reception. Antenatal: We operate a shared care system with the local hospitals. We look after mothers before and after the baby is born. We make routine visits to your home in the postnatal period if necessary, but encourage the mother and baby to visit the surgery if possible.
Our attached midwives run a weekly antenatal clinic and will visit postnatally. Blood tests: Appointments available with the Phlebotomists who have clinics throughout the week. Asthma Clinic: Asthmatics are encouraged to attend the chronic disease clinic which is run by the practice nurses who are asthma trained. We aim to help our patients to improve the management of their condition. Audiometry: Hearing tests as required by the doctor.
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