When you are confirmed a being pregnant please call into the reception, you will be asked to complete a GMS2 form which will then be passed to the midwife. The midwife will contact you to arrange an antenatal booking appointment at around 10 or 11 weeks after your last period.

You do not need to see a GP to claim for maternity services but if you feel you need to see a GP for any medical query or complication please contact the surgery.

For more information on Maternity Services please visit the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust’s website.

The NHS Breast Screening Programme provides free breast screening every three years for all women in the UK aged 50 and over. Around one-and-a-half million women are screened in the UK each year. The NHS Breast Screening Programme is phasing in an extension of the age range of women eligible for breast screening to those aged 47 to 73 starting in 2010.

The NHS Breast Screening Programme will extend the age range of women eligible for breast screening to ages 47 to 73 by 2012.

There are aroundﾠ 90 breast screening units across the UK. All women registered with a GP will receive their first invitation to attend for a mammogram some time between their 50th and 53rd birthdays. Invitations are then sent every three years until a woman reaches her 71st birthday. If you have not received an invitation, your GP can arrange for one to be sent to you. If you have any worrying breast symptoms while waiting for a breast screening appointment, contact your GP, who can refer you to the breast clinic if necessary.

You can access more information regarding breast screening onﾠthe NHS Breast Screening Programme website.

You can get details of your nearest family planning clinic from the phone book, your GP, local hospital, health authority, or from the Family Planning Association (FPA) website.

Family planning clinics can be used by women, men and young people, including those who are under 16 years of age. Most health authorities also have specific services for young people.

You can refer yourself to a family planning clinic, or you can be referred by your GP, or another health worker. However, you may need to book an appointment to see a healthcare professional at a family planning clinic. Many family planning clinics also run walk-in clinics.

Family planning clinics provide a range of services including:

• Confidential advice about contraception,
• The combined oral contraceptive pill,
• The progestogen-only pill,
• Progestogen injections,
• Limited supplies of free condoms,
• Free emergency contraception,
• Confidential advice about STIs,
• Cervical screening,
• Unplanned pregnancy advice,
• Free pregnancy tests,
• Pre-conception advice and fertility awareness information, and
• Fitting and checking of caps, diaphragms, and coils (intrauterine devices, or IUDs).

Further Information on Women’s Health is available on the NHS Live Well website.

All womenﾠbetween the ages of 25 and 64ﾠ are encouraged to have regular ﾠcervical screening tests to detect precancerous changes at the neck of the womb.

• Women should receive their first invitation for screening at 25.
• Women aged 25-49 are invited for screening everyﾠthree years.
• Women aged 50-64 are invited for screening everyﾠfive years.
• Women aged 65 or over are only screened if they have not been screened since they were 50 or have had recent abnormal test results.

You are invited to attend and see the practice nurse, please ring the appointment line to arrange an appointment.

If times/dates at the surgery are not suitable you may ring the Family Planning Clinic on 0161 426 5599 between 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Monday to Friday, they offer appointments early evenings at a number of different clinics in the local area.

A smear is a test to pick up very early changes in the cervix which could become cancer in the future.

However 90% of smears are normal.

Negative

Your smear test is normal. However, if you experience abnormal bleeding you should see a doctor

Inadequate

The smear is unsuitable for testing and therefore has to be repeated 3 months later.

Abnormal smears

Only a small percentage of smears are abnormal. This means that there are changes that if left untreated, may become cancer in the future.

Most of these changes return to normal without treatment being required. You are usually asked to return for a repeat smear test in 6-12 months. If treatment is needed it is almost 100% effective involving a minor procedure in the hospital outpatient department. You will be referred to the hospital for a colposcopy.

Results

Stockport Primary Care Trust will inform you of your results via the post to you home address approximately 6-8 weeks following you smear test.

We will also write to you if there is any problem with your smear result or if early review is required.

You can access more information regarding cervical screening testsﾠon the NHS Cervical Screening Programme website.

All routine vaccination appointments are organised by Anthony at Beech House Surgery. Instead of an appointment slip being sent to your home they are sent to the surgery and a phone call will be made to organise an appointment date and time. If you have not been contacted at least a week in advance of your child’s next vaccination please ring the surgery.

Dr Hull carries out development checks on children at 8 weeks of age, coinciding with the child’s first immunisations. Subsequent assessments are performed by the Health Visitors next door at Hazel Grove Clinic.

We run a dedicated child vaccination clinic on a Tuesday morning, If a Tuesday morning is difficult to attend we can arrange an appointment for our practice nurse here at the surgery on another day.

For further information on childhood vaccinationsﾠyou can visit the NHS Choicesﾠwebsite.

If you are planning a trip abroad and require specific vaccinations, it is advised that at least 10 weeks before traveling that a Pre-Travel Questionnaire is completed BEFORE arranging an appointment with the Practice Nurse.

Call us to request a electronic questionnaire to be sent to you (we do have paper forms available if you have no electronic device). You will then be contacted back in due course with the outcome.

Currently we provide the following vaccines free of charge:

• Hepatitis A
• Tetanus
• Diphtheria
• Polio
• Typhoid

We do provide Hepatitis B vaccines for holiday travel but their is a charge for the vaccination.

We do not provide the following vaccines:

• Japanese Encephalitis
• Ticke Borne Encephalitis
• Yellow Fever
• Rabies

Malaria prophylaxis is not available on the NHS. It can be obtained over the counter from your pharmacist and a dispensing fee will be charged.

If you wish to find out information about your travel destination please visit the Fit For Travel website.

Stopping smoking is the single best thing you can do to improve your health and your life expectancy.

Benefits to you and your family

• Less risk of cancer developing
• Immediate improvement in breathing
• Smokers’ cough decreases and phlegm in lungs reduced
• Sense of taste and smell improves
• Halt any decline in lung efficiency
• Protect your family from effects of passive smoking
• If you want help to give up smoking please make an appointment with Jackie Crossfield.

If you are ready to give up smoking you can also self refer to the Stockport Stop Smoking Service. They hold both individual and group sessions, please telephone 0161 487 2020.

NHS Free Smoking Helpline: 0800 022 4332 – visit website.

We hold regular minor surgery sessions which enables us to deal with a large number of skin lesions that would otherwise have to be referred to hospital. These cysts, skin tags, certain moles and lipomata (fatty lumps). We also offer coil and implants.

Dr Salim runs these minor surgery sessions, it is important that you see Dr Salim in a routine appointment prior to booking a minor surgery appointment.

We also offer joint injections, these are done by James Holland the physio who does Monday and Tuesday sessions with us. An initial appointment would be need to be made with him first before a joint injection would be booked in.