The following Services are run by the local commissioning group from Manor Brook Medical Centre:

• Phlebotomy Service – Monday, Wednesday and Friday
• Podiatry – Available twice a week
• Physiotherapy – Available twice a week

Our practice nurses are fully trained to give advice and vaccinations for patients who are about to travel abroad.

Please allow at least a month before travel to ensure there is sufficient time to give the appropriate vaccinations. Please complete the travel risk assessment form, this will need to be completed and returned to the practice before any appointment with the nurse.

You may find the following websites helpful for general information regarding the vaccine and health requirements for your trip:

• Fit for Travel
• MASTA Travel Health
• NHS Choices Travel Immunisation

We try to encourage our patients to lead healthy lives, smoking is harmful to your health and we encourage patients to give up.

Greenwich Health run smoking cessation clinics which with counselling, support and sometimes medication can help you to stop smoking.

Useful External Links to help you stop smoking:

• No Smoking Day  – Find out more about people like you ready to kick the habit.
• Gosmokefree – This website contains detailed information about the free NHS support services.
• Smoking Cessation – NHS Choices Site – if you smoke, giving up is probably the greatest single step you can take to improve your health.
• Quit Org. – Quit is the independent charity whose aim is to save lives by helping smokers to stop.
• Smoking Quitters Cost Tool – Calculate the money you will save with NHS Choices quitters cost calculator and plan how to spend it.
• ASH – Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.

We hold a diabetic clinic on Friday mornings, this is run by Dr Kingston and Pharmacist Mark Shek.

We aim to give our diabetic patients a high standard of care and with their co-operation ensure a healthy life.

Nurse Lindsey Wood is our lead in asthma management. For most patients who are stable on their medication a yearly review at the asthma clinic is sufficient. For patients with poorly controlled asthma or in an acute attack please make a routine or emergency appointment in the usual way.

If you have been advised by the surgery to submit an annual review of your asthma symptoms, please complete the Asthma Review form.

She also reviews chronic chest conditions such as COPD and emphysema.

If you have been advised by the surgery to submit a COPD assessment, please complete the COPD Assessment form.

The clinic is held on Wednesday mornings and is run by Drs Singh.

Wednesday: 09:30 – 11:30 (Doctor)
Eight week check and first vaccinations

Wednesday: 09:30 – 11:00 (Nurse)
Childhood vaccinations

Travel Vaccines

Vaccines ideally need to be given at least 6 – 8 weeks before departure if possible. Vaccines need time to take effect and some may require a course over several weeks.

Travel Vaccination Prices

Travel advice is covered by the NHS, however some vaccinations and prescriptions are only available privately.

Further Information

The following websites will give you additional travel advice.