Your GP will discuss with you and, if appropriate your carer about why a referral is being recommended.

You are usually referred because your GP wants a specialists help in deciding how best to treat your condition or they do not have the equipment for tests and investigations needed at your GP surgery.

Your GP will also discuss your patient choice when you are referred.

However, if you do not express a preference your GP will tend to refer you to a local hospital near where you live and is part of the local healthcare system.

For more information on referrals information please see here.

If you would like to book one of these clinics, please book your appointment online, or contact us on 01959 580011.

All doctors offer routine and emergency contraceptive advice during normal surgeries.

The IUCD (coil) is fitted by Dr Wong and Dr Long by special arrangement.

Routine family planning advice is also available from the practice nurses by appointment.

The local District Nurse team liaise closely with the doctors and our patients are often referred to them for continuing care in the community.

You can contact them on: 0300 330 5777

Similarly the Health Visitors attached to this practice can be contacted on 020 8836 8621.

They have special responsibility for mothers and children, the elderly and the bereaved.

Our Community Midwife runs an antenatal clinic at the practice on Friday afternoons, offering help and advice during pregnancy and can be contacted Monday – Friday on 01689 864820

If you are a stoma patient, or a carer of a stoma product user, you can contact the nurse team on 01689 864 742 for help and advice, or to book an appointment. 

We are currently part of a physio assessment project at the surgery, when you are referred by a GP for physiotherapy, you will be seen at the surgery on a Wednsday afternoon for assessment.

If you then need ongoing sessions with the physiotherapist these will be held at a centre in Orpington or Bromley.

This project is assisting in bringing the waiting times down considerably, benefiting everyone.

We do offer confidential advice, testing & treatment for sexual health with either Dr Bridget Hopkins and Dr Selena Wong.

If you wish to make an appointment to chat about anything related to sexual health then telephone 01959 58 00 11.

Any information you share will be treated in the strictest confidence.

In accordance with the Department of Health guidelines, we recommend an influenza vaccination for patients aged 65 or over and all patients with diabetes, chronic chest problems (including asthma), chronic heart, lung or kidney disease and residents of nursing and rest homes.

The vaccination is available in the Autumn; please contact the practice for further details.

Pneumonia vaccinations are also available all year round for patients aged 65 or over.