Clinics & Services

Family Planning/Contraception Advice

Advice on contraception including coil fitting and Implanon insertion. Preconception Clinic.

Ante-Natal Clinic.

These clinics are run by the midwife.

Child Development and Immunisations

This clinic is held on a Tuesday morning. A full screening programme is carried out, and immunizations given as necessary. The Health Visitor is also involved in this clinic.

Diabetic Clinic

Our practice Nurse and Doctors run these clinics.

Minor Surgery Clinic including Warts and Verrucae

Our practice Nurse runs this clinic on a Wednesday afternoon (third Wednesday in the month)

Lumps and Bumps

We are able to arrange removal of “lumps and bumps” within the health centre. This is carried out by a qualified clinician and saves you traveling to hospital for treatment.

Post Myocardial Infarction/Heart Clinic.

Asthma and COPD Clinics

Our practice nurse runs these clinics on a Thursday morning and Friday afternoon.

Blood Pressure Clinic

Our Practice Nurse runs this clinic on a Monday afternoon or we can arrange an alternative time to suit you.

Epilepsy Clinic

Monitoring of Blood Levels done by the Practice Nurse.

Anticoagulant (Warfarin) Clinic

We offer our patients an alternative to attending hospital for monitoring of INR levels.

Patients on Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs

Blood and urine checks carried our by the Practice Nurse

Test Results

Please call between 11am and 3.30pm to enquire about your test results as our reception staff will have more time to deal with your request between these times.

Note that the practice has a strict policy regarding confidentiality and data protection and we will only release test results to the person to whom they relate unless that person has given prior permission for the release of this data or they are not capable of understanding the results.

When you take your test you will be told how long it will be before the results are returned to the practice.

It is your responsibility to check your results and to make an appointment to discuss them with your doctor if your are advised to do so.

Other Practice Clinics

Our Practice Nurses also run the following clinics:

• Helicobacter Pylori Breath Testing
• Stop Smoking
• Weight Reduction Management
• Well Person Screening
• Flu and Pneumococcal Immunisation Clinics
• MMR Catch-up (for students)
• HPV Immunisation
• Hepatitis Immunisations
• Recall of those patients aged between 16 and 75 who have not previously attended the Practice in the past three years.
• Screening of patients aged over 75.

Enhanced medical services for residents of care homes

As well as receiving on going care, residents in Nursing/Residential/Care Homes are given an annual medical check, which will include an annual flu vaccination.

Community Link Worker (CLW)

Carol McCabe is based in the Practice and she can point you in the right direction with help regarding:

Money and benefit advice, debt management and budgeting

Local activities and social groups

Self-help and support groups

Care services and carers support groups

Volunteering opportunities

Getting in to work, training and education.

IF YOU WISH AN APPOINTMENT PLEASE CONTACT RECEPTION

Please do not contact your GP Practice to ask for a Covid vaccination passport or status certificate – we are not be able to provide any standard document.

Please see below the link to the Scottish Government website for information on how patients can now access their vaccination status without the need to contact their GP Practice.

https://www.gov.scot/news/covid-19-vaccination-status-scheme-launches/

Patients will be able access their Covid-19 Vaccination status online, by logging on to www.nhsinform.scot/covid19status.  For those patients unable to access the information online they can call the freephone Covid Status helpline to request their vaccination status which will be sent to them in the post.  The Freephone number is 0808 196 8565.

We are Live with Holly Health (the mobile App for personalised healthy habit coaching).

Stevenston Group Practice has partnered with Holly Health to offer patients 12 months of free habit coaching (to help sleep, exercise, eating and mental wellbeing). The app may serve as an extra tool to help feel physically and mentally better.

You can sign up here: http://hly.app/stevenston-gp