Clinics & Services

Practice Based Clinics

Nurse and HCA appointments are available for:

• Chronic disease monitoring

• Specialist diabetes clinic

• Women’s health including cervical smears, pill checks and emergency contraception

• Sexual Health advice and screening for women and men

• Child health and Immunisations

• Foreign travel advice and vaccinations including Yellow Fever

• Minor injuries

• Dressings

• Ear syringing

• General information regarding diet and weight control

• Smoking cessation clinic (HCA)

• Young person walk in clinic

• NHS Health checks (HCA)

• Midwife and physiotherapy clinics are also available – see below for further information

Test Results

If you have attended the surgery for a blood test, your GP will contact you by letter, if they wish to speak to you about the result. You will not be contacted if the GP requires no further action to be taken. We regret that Receptionists are unable to give out results.

Online Services

Online Doctors' Appointments and Repeat Prescription Requests

You are now able to book and cancel your routine appointment with the doctor and order a repeat prescription over the internet.

Click here to book or cancel an appointment online.

Click here to order a repeat prescription online.

Obtaining Your Registration Information

Please come to the practice in person and ask for details of how to register for Emis Access. You will then be provided with your own unique registration details. All you need to do then is click on https://access.e-mis.co.uk , and follow the simple instructions. You will be asked to create an account. You will be prompted for your personal login details, which will be on your on-line registration letter provided by the surgery. You can then register for and use our on-line services.

Repeat Prescription requests (Online)

This facility allows you to order routine repeat prescriptions. Messages should not be left when ordering. If you want to alter your medication, or ask for different doses or quantity, you must contact the surgery in the usual way.

Please note: ‘Repeat Prescriptions’ refers to medication which your Dr has agreed can be requested on a repeat basis without a need to see or speak to a Dr each time.

Collecting your prescriptions

We can send your prescriptions to a pharmacy of your choice for you to collect directly. Superdrug Sidney Street and Boots Petty Cury will collect the prescription from the surgery but if you have an alternate pharmacy you wish to collect from then please discuss your needs with reception. Please note this when making your online request.

Collecting prescriptions from reception -please avoid busy times of the day especially between 08.30 and 10.00.

Please note that unfortunately we are unable to post your prescription unless you supply us with a stamped addressed envelope.

Click here to order a repeat prescription online.

Booking Online Appointments

Once you have completed the registration process outlined above you will be able to book routine, ten minute appointments with the doctor on-line.

Please do not book on-line appointments with the doctor for nurse led issues. Please refer to the Clinics & Services section of the website for further clarification or speak to a receptionist. Please be aware that you may have to re-book an appointment if it is not appropriate for a routine, ten minute appointment. Click here to book or cancel an appointment online.

Chronic Disease Clinics:

We offer the following chronic disease clinics with our practice nurses for patients with the following conditions:

• Asthma and COPD

• Cardiovascular disease such as heart disease, stroke and heart failure

• Hypertension

• Diabetes

• Mental health conditions

You will be contacted by the surgery with an offer of an appointment when your review is due. If you are at all worried about your existing condition before your review is due, or think you have one of these conditions that is undiagnosed, please do not hesitate to contact the surgery. Our Lead Practice Nurse Mrs Jackie Reynolds was a Diabetic Specialist Nurse at Addenbrookes for many years and runs our Diabetic clinics.

Women’s Health & Contraceptive Services

All the practice nurses and GPs can discuss all aspects of women’s health including your contraceptive choices and see you for contraceptive reviews and emergency contraception. Dr Holmes and Dr O’Sullivan both fit intrauterine contraceptive devices here in the surgery and Dr Holmes and Dr Khan both fit contraceptive implants. We will need to see you in advance in a routine GP appointment to discuss this first.

Family Planning Association leaflets can be found at www.fpa.org.uk/helpandadvice/contraception

The practice nurses have appointments for Cervical Smear Screening. These are offered every 3 years to all women between the ages of 25 to 64 as part of the NHS National Cervical Screening Programme. www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/cervical/index.html

Breast screening (mammography) is undertaken as part of the national screening programme. Currently all women aged 50 -70 are sent a written invitation every 3 years. This takes place in a local centre (not at the practice). There are plans to increase this age range to 47-73 by 2016. www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/breastscreen/index.html

We would also encourage everyone over 60 to take part in the NHS National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/bowel/index.html

We encourage all women between 40 and 74 years old to come for the NHS Health Check here in the surgery

Are you planning a pregnancy? We are happy to see and advise all women planning a pregnancy.

Men’s Health

Of course we also discuss all aspects of men’s health and we encourage all men between 40 and 74 years old to come for the NHS Health Check here in the surgery.

We are happy to discuss the NHS Prostate Cancer Risk Management Programme www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/prostate/index.html

We would also encourage everyone over 60 to take part in the NHS National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/bowel/index.html

Sexual Health

The practice can offer sexual health advice & checks to both women and men. Please make an appointment with the practice nurse.

Chlamydia screening
We encourage all patients aged 16 to 24 to have this test. It is freely available at the surgery and most college nurses also have supplies. Please see the website Cambs Take a Test for more information: www.cambstakeatest.com or the national website at: www.chlamydiascreening.nhs.uk

Other useful contacts:

The Laurels Family Planning and Sexual Health Clinic - 08456 505152 www.sexualhealthcambs.nhs.uk/info_laurels.php

Clinic 1a/Sexual Health Clinic, Addenbrooke’s Hospital - 01223 217774 or 01223 217239 www.addenbrookes.org.uk/shac

Child Health and Immunisations

All babies are routinely fully examined at around 8 weeks old by a GP and all routine childhood immunisations are carried out by our practice nurses. Please book an appointment with one of the practice nurses in the usual way. Please see NHS Choices for up to date information about the latest schedule: www.nhs.uk/Planners/vaccinations/Pages/aboutvaccinationhub.aspx

For general advice about caring for pre-school children please contact your Child & Family Health Visiting Team: Based at York Street Medical Centre: 01223 222020/222021

Travel Clinic and Vaccinations

The practice offers travel advice and vaccinations including Yellow Fever vaccination with our practice nurses both in daytime opening hours and as part of an evening extended access clinic which means patients can avoid taking time off work. Please ask at Reception for more details.

It is important to have all the recommended travel vaccinations before travelling abroad. Before making an appointment to see the practice nurse for travel vaccinations, patients are requested to get up-to-date information on the current vaccination requirements for their holiday destination. This information can be requested online. Please follow this link. Full information on travel vaccinations is available on the NHS Choices website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/Travel-immunisation/Pages/Introduction.aspx?url=Pages/what-is-it.aspx.

Once you have downloaded the information, book your appointment with the practice nurse. Please remember to complete the Travel Information Form and bring the information with you to your appointment.

Please note that some vaccinations are not available from the NHS and a fee will need to be paid (Bridge Street Medical Centre Travel Vaccine Price List). Please note that the practice cannot accept payment by credit or debit card.

Please make all cheques payable to: Dr Bakker and Partners. Please make an appointment with the practice nurse at least 6 weeks before you travel or several months if you are going trekking/backpacking or planning a long stay holiday.

Please see our General Travel Advice Leaflet and Fit for Travel Information.

NHS Health Checks

The surgery is pleased to offer NHS Health Checks to patients aged 40-74 who may be at risk of developing vascular disease. You can be screened for raised cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney problems. If you currently already have of these conditions you will not be eligible for the check. Please contact Reception for more information.

Young Persons Walk In Clinic during University term time

If you are aged 17-25 years and registered with us, simply arrive between 12:00 and 12:30, Monday, Wednesday or Friday during term time, give your name at reception and you will be seen in turn.

Conditions covered by the clinic.

Health Care Assistant Appointments:

Our HCA’s perform all the blood tests and numerous checks such as NHS Health Checks, pill checks and blood pressure checks as well as spirometry, electrocardiograms and assisting in some minor surgical procedures. Dawn also administers some injections, removes sutures and dresses wounds as well as running the Smoking Cessation clinics.

We would ask patients to see the HCA wherever possible. This allows the majority of nursing appointments to be used for procedures, which the healthcare assistant is unable to carry out.

Minor Surgery

Several GPs in the practice are able to perform a wide range of minor surgical procedures based on clinical criteria. Please see a GP to discuss in more detail.

Physiotherapy

A physiotherapist visits the surgery on a Thursday. Once your GP has made a referral, the clinic administrator will contact you with an offer of an appointment.

Antenatal (Maternity) Care

Usually care is jointly provided by your GP, community midwife and the Rosie Maternity Hospital

Midwife

Your Community Midwife is Ruth Todd and she is in the surgery for antenatal clinics on Wednesday afternoons but also works in the community doing home visits

Ruth Todd is part of Scarlett Team which is based at the Fawcett Children’s Centre. The contact telephone number is: 01223 349376 this is an answer phone message service and calls will be responded to every 24 hours so please leave a short message and suitable contact numbers. Please note THIS TELEPHONE NUMBER IS NOT FOR EMERGENCIES

The Rosie Maternity Hospital www.cuh.org.uk/rosie/rosie_index.html

EMERGENCY ANTENATAL CONTACT NUMBERS:

For expectant mothers – an information sheet is given to all women directing them to an appropriate number as their condition dictates (see table below):