Services: Statement of Purpose
As part of standard GMS care we offer a variety of services to our patients for the management and prevention of acute illness, prevention of ill health and care for those patients with long term conditions.
NHS Services include:
Appointments
- Face to face appointments (Emergency, same day, routine pre-bookable, extended hours)
- Pre-bookable appointments with registered GP and nurse practitioners
- Telephone consultations/triage with registered GPs and daily duty GP.
- Home visits for housebound patients
Long term conditions clinics
- Mental health, dementia, learning disability reviews, epilepsy (GP/Nurse Practitioner led)
- CVD risk (GP/Nurse Practitioner led)
- Diabetes, asthma, COPD, stroke, CHD reviews (nurse led)
- Palliative care, end of life planning
- Admission avoidance care planning
- Leg ulcer clinic
Health Promotion/prevention of disease
- Shared care substance misuse (in partnership with CADAS)
- NHS health checks – weight loss and lifestyle support
- New patient checks
- Medication reviews
- Prostate cancer injections
- Spirometry (lung test)
- 24 hour blood pressure monitoring
- 24 hour ECG
- Child health surveillance and immunisation
- Maternity – routine antenatal care/post-natal
- checks (GP and midwife)
- Pregnancy testing and contraceptive advice
- Contraceptive services – pill checks, implant and coil implant and removal services
- Immunisation programmes (influenza, pneumovax, public health catch up campaigns)
- Minor surgery/joint injections
- Ophthalmology (GP with Specialist Interest)
- Dermatology (GP with Specialist Interest – Dorset Healthcare led)
- Cervical cytology
- HPV vaccination
- Travel advice and immunisations
- Wound management/dressings/suture removal
- Ear syringing
- Ring pessary fitting
Online services
- Appointment booking
- Prescription ordering (48 hour service)
- Access to summary online records
Non NHS Services include
We also provide services which are non NHS and are paid for by the patient or requesting organisation.
These include:
- Private medical insurance reports and medicals
- Sports, Pre-employment and HGV medicals/fitness certification
- Non-NHS travel vaccinations – Yellow Fever centre
- Access to medical records
- Private sick certificates
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