Blessing Medical Centre - The clinics and other services offered by our doctors surgery

Clinics & Services

Dr Wong and her team at Blessing Medical Centre are keen to provide you with high quality medical care. The following services are available by appointment or by referral:

Antenatal Care: Shared with a local hospital
Family Planning: Contraceptive services including coils and implants
Well Person Clinic: General annual check-ups including cervical smears, blood pressure monitoring, routine blood tests.
Minor Surgery: Removal of problematic moles, warts, verrucae, skin tags and moles.
Mother & Baby Clinic: Postnatal checks, 8 wk baby checks, child development assessment and immunisations.
Chronic Disease Management: These include Diabetes, Asthma, Cancer, COPD, Mental Health, Heart disease, Epilepsy, Hypertension, Hypothyroidism, Stroke, Learning disabilities, depression, atrial fibrillation, chronic kidney disease, dementia, obesity and palliative care. Please see the GP or practice nurse.
Insurance/ Medical Medicals: for work, insurance, legal etc. By arrangement
Counselling/ Support: Patients can access support by asking the GP to our Alcohol support worker or CPN nurse.
Specialist Diabetic Clinics: Since February 2015 Dr Wong, have been running a specialist diabetic clinic with local consultant diabetes doctors and nurses. This clinics are held once a month.

Annual Health Checks and Monitoring

Patients’ who may have long term medical conditions will be invited to attend the practice throughout the year for monitoring and review. It is essential that you take responsibility for your health and keep appointments so that our clinical team can support you as well as we can.

New service “Kilburn Care at Home”

The practice is now offering an exclusive service for patients aged 65 and over, called “Kilburn Care at Home”. From now on, 7 days a week 8am to 8pm patients requiring an enhanced level of care can access GP advice more quickly and easily than before.

The aim of the service is simple, to make sure that you receive the right care in the right setting.

How do I access the service?

If you are 65 and over with one or more long term condition and have difficulty accessing care outside your home, you may already be registered for the service, in which case accessing it is easy: simply dial 111 when you need GP advice and we’ll be able to respond to your need as appropriate.

To find out if you are eligible or to register for the service please contact us on 020 3667 5564

Please note that this service is not to be used in an emergency. If you require emergency medical attention please dial 999.

As this is a new service your feedback is very important to us and we would like to know your experience of using it, please email us at Kilburn.admin@nhs.net or telephone 0333 321 2084.

If you wish to opt out of the service please contact the practice on to discuss 020 3667 5564.

Our dedicated mother and baby clinic is held every Wednesday afternoon between 2-4.30pm.

Dr Lily Wong provides both antenatal and postnatal checks as well as 8 week baby checks. Our Practice Nurse, Frebeleen also carries out childhood immunisations during this clinic.

Please contact reception for further information.

As some services are not covered under our contract with the NHS, they may therefore attract charges. Please see the cost of Non-NHS services below

Please be advised it is at the discretion of the GP whether requests for letters, reports etc. will be fulfilled. There is normally a 4 - 6 weeks waiting period before these requests would be completed by the GP.

Passports

Please note: From May 2016, GPs at this practice will no longer be countersigning passport applications.

Please see the link below for further information and details of other occupations that are authorised to counter sign passports.

https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications/accepted-occupations-for-countersignatories

Private Medical Services and Non-Medical Service Fees List (2019)
Fees for Medical Reports, Letters, etc.
Access to Records under Data Protection Act	Who pays	Charge
Computerised records	Patient	£
Manual records or combination of manual/computer records	Patient/Solicitor	Up to £50 10p per page
Charge for sending by recorded delivery	Patient/Solicitor	By weight (PO Receipt)
Adoption and Fostering
Adoption fees normally paid by parent, fostering by NHS, but sometimes paid by the local authority/adoption or fostering agency
Child-minder (Ofsted Health Declaration form)	Patient/Employer	£25
Forms IHA, M, B, C, D, YP, etc.	Patient/Employer	£25 - £85
Examination of children in/for care	Patient/Employer	£40
Subsequent examinations	Patient/Employer	£25
Attendance Allowance/Disability Living Allowance
GP factual report	DWP	£33.50
DS1500	DWP	£17.70
Blue Badge Scheme
Report only (GP does not manually complete)	Local Authority	£25
Examination and report (not by GP)	Local Authority	£40
Driving
Full medical and report (45 min appointment)	Patient/Employer	£130
Basic appointment (patient fills in all details on every page & brings urine sample)	Patient	£63
Employment
Full medical and report (45 minute appointment)	Patient/Employer	£130
Report only (15 minutes)	Patient/Employer	£63
Incapacity statement	Patient/Employer	£16.50
Reference for jobs	Patient	£25
Insurance
Examination and report	Insurance Co/patient	£130
Extract from records (15 minutes)	Insurance Co/patient	£63
Holiday cancellation form	Insurance Co/patient	£25
Report without examination (GPR)	Insurance Company	£95.00
Extra information	Insurance Company	£24
Holiday Certificates and Forms
Holiday cancellation certificates/statement	Patient	£25
Holiday cancellation form (15 mins)	Insurance Co/patient	£45
Fitness to Travel certificate (15 mins)	Patient	£25
With examination (30 mins)	Patient	£65
Print out of regular prescriptions	Patient	£5
Mental Capacity Certificate
With examination (45 mins)	Solicitor/Guardian	£130
No examination (15 mins)	Solicitor/Guardian	£63
Miscellaneous Forms/Statements
Shotgun / Fishing licence	Patient	£63
To whom it may concern (short statement)	Patient	£40
Private Medical Examination and Report
Full examination (45 mins)	Patient/Employer/ Insurance	£130
Report no examination (15 minutes)	Patient/Employer/ Insurance	£63

You do not require a doctor's sickness certificate for any illness lasting seven days or less. Your employer may however require you to complete a self-certification form (SC2) which is available from your employer or on the HMRC website.

Evidence that you are sick

Sickness Certificates If you are sick for more than seven days, your employer can ask you to give them some form of medical evidence to support payment of SSP (statutory sick pay).

It is up to your employer to decide whether you are incapable of work. A medical certificate, now called a 'Statement of Fitness for Work’ (see below) from your doctor is strong evidence that you are sick and would normally be accepted, unless there is evidence to prove otherwise.

You could also provide evidence from someone who is not a medical practitioner, e.g. a dentist. Your employer will decide whether or not this evidence is acceptable. If your employer has any doubts, they may still ask for a medical certificate from your GP.

Statement of Fitness for Work - ’Fit Note'

The 'fit note' was introduced on 6 April 2010. With your employer's support, the note will help you return to work sooner by providing more information about the effects of your illness or injury.

For more information see the DirectGov website (where this information was sourced)

Whole Systems Integrated Care

We are taking part in the North West London wide Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC) project. To be able to take part and offer our patients better care we need to share your medical records (coded data only and over 18 years old).

This project has it own website and information links. Please see further below for these.

If you have any questions/concerns please email wsic.dashboards@nw.london.nhs.uk

If you do not wish to take part you need to complete this form Data Sharing Opt Out Form and email (breccg.blessingmc@nhs.net), post or deliver to reception - for the attention of Debbie Nimblette

Other useful information about WSIC:

Website - http://integration.healthiernor thwestlondon.nhs.uk/
Frequently Asked questions - FAQs
Information about Information Sharing Agreement - ISA
How your information is used - Information usage, Information usage 2, Sharing information

Our practice nolonger provides a travel service.

Both, Central Middlesex and St Mary's Hospitals, run Travel clinic services.

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you should complete a minimum of 6 weeks before travel. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required. Please refer to the information below.

Vaccination information by country

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

Please note: Not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

Travelling in Europe

If you are travelling to Europe a very useful booklet has been published with advice and guidance to help you get the most out of your holiday. To visit please click:- http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/86/en.pdf (this is a large document and may take a minute or two to view)