CLINICS

If you have a long term condition, like diabetes or asthma, our team will help you manage your condition. Everyone with a long term condition can expect to be invited to a yearly review to monitor their condition and help them manage it.

• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Cardiovascular
• Hypertension
• Dementia

Screening is a way of finding out if people are at higher risk of a health problem, so that early treatment can be offered or information given to help them make informed decisions.

• Cervical
• Bowel
• Breast
• Pre-diabetes

If you think you are pregnant please make an appointment as soon as possible with your GP, who will share your care with the local midwife team. After your child is born we will continue to monitor their development and immunise them as and when necessary.

• • Family planning
  • Postnatal checks
  • Child immunisations

Diabetes clinics give you the chance to meet medical experts who can check that you are as healthy as possible and give you highly specialised advice on how to look after your diabetes.

Oakwood surgery Dr Al Qazi is the expert GP in Diabetes. This is the doctor in charge of your care and treatment and if he then refer you to a diabetes clinic for specialist diabetes care. We provide once a year review to ask questions about your diabetes and get your vital diabetes checks.

Travel Vaccinations

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

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

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible – at least 6 weeks before you travel – as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

Travelling in Europe

If you are travelling to Europe the EU has published useful information for travellers on the European website.