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 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. 
• Travel Clinic: Full immunisation and advice service provided. Please request at least six weeks before travelling. 
• 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
• IAPT Psychologist/ Counselling: Patients can access support by self referral or asking the GP
• Specialist Diabetic Clinics Since February 2015 Dr Wong and our nurse Cristina, 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.

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to complete a Travel Questionnaire 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. 

Travel Health Questionnaire 

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form.

Travel Questionnaire

Yellow Fever Vaccination

We are a designated Yellow Fever Centre. Please contact the surgery for further information

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

It is important to complete the questionnaire as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before your travel date - as an appointment may be required with the GP and then a second appointment for the practice nurse to actually administer the vaccinations. 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.

TRAVEL CLINIC -  FEES

 Non- NHS fees must be paid on arrival at Reception

¨  Hepatitis B (3 doses)Travel / employment                                    £45.00@

¨  Japanese encephalitis (3 doses)                                                  £85.00@

¨  Meningitis ACWY                                                                        £40.00

¨  Rabies (3 doses)                                                                        £55.00

¨  Yellow Fever (Not certificated)                                                   £65.00

¨  Malaria script                                                                             £10.00

¨  Immunisation summary certificate                                               £10.00

¨  International certificate of vaccination                                          £20.00

¨  Holiday cancellation certificate                                                     £25.00

¨  Holiday cancellation – examination and report                              £65.00

¨  Fitness to travel certificate                                                          £25.00

¨  Fitness to travel certificate – extract from records                         £30.00

¨  Insurance/legal claims                                                                from £50.00

Updated February 2015 ( Based on BMA guidance)

Travel Health Questionnaire 

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form.

Travel Questionnaire

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)

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 Cristina 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 5-10 day waiting period be these requests would be completed. 

Passports

Please also note that as of the 11th of May 2016, GPs at this practice will no longer be countersigning passport applications. This is in accordance with government guidelines. 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

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

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 partaking 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.healthiernorthwestlondon.nhs.uk/
• Frequently Asked questions - FAQs
• Information about Information Sharing Agreement - ISA
• How your information is used  - Information usage, Information usage 2, Sharing information

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