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

Clinics & Services

In addition to the routine medical treatments and advice provided at The Limes Medical Centre please see below for other services:

Addiction Counselling

The practice supports patients attending detoxification at Kent Council for Addiction treatment centres or the East Kent Substance Misuse clinics. We do not supply opiate prescriptions to these patients and prescribing remains the reponsibility of unit supervising treatment.

Anticoagulant Monitoring Clinic

This clinic is for patients who have been started on an anticoagulant medication and enables patients to be monitored closely.

Antenatal Clinics

Antenatal and Postnatal services are provided by our midwives and the doctors.

Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease Clinics

Full assessments with Spirometry and management advice are provided by our specialist practice Nurse Samantha Halliwell.

Cardiovascular Medicine Clinics

Patients can receive full assessments and management advice for Angina, Atrial fibrillation, Heart Attack, Peripheral vascular disease and Hypertensive patients.

Child Health Surveillance and Immunisations Clinics

These are provided by the practice nurses and doctors.

Health Visiting Team

The Health Visiting Team is made up of qualified nurses who have a specialist training and Community Nursery Nurses to work with and support families with children of pre-school age. Thier role includes home visiting when you have a baby, developmental assessments, health education, maternal mental health, support with sleep. behaviour, toilet training and well baby clinics. The Health Visiting Team is based at St Augustines and can be contacted on 019843 830225 option 1 Monday- Friday 9am - 5pm (excluding Bank Holidays)

Contraception Services

All doctors offer a range of services for contraception. Dr Anita Jain and Nurse Lucy Le Vasseur are able to implant Implanon contraceptive tubes.

Diabetic Clinic

Full assessments and annual check-ups are performed with monitoring tests and health care advice. This service, which includes the initiation and maintenance of insulin therapy and the new therapies including exenatide and the gliptins is provided by our specialist practice Nurse Kate Sutton.

Health Assessment and Promotion Clinics

Patients may book to have well person checks, screening tests and health advice from our practice Nurses and Nurse Practitioner.

Elderly Assessments

Patients over the age of 75 yrs may book in for a health care check annually.

Mental Health Nurses

Appointments available at the surgery

Travel Vaccinations

Which travel vaccines are free?

The following travel vaccines are available free on the NHS from your GP surgery:

polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)
typhoid
hepatitis A
cholera

These vaccines are free because they protect against diseases thought to represent the greatest risk to public health if they were brought into the country.

Which travel vaccines will I have to pay for?

You'll have to pay for travel vaccinations against:

Yellow fever vaccines are only available from designated centres.

The cost of travel vaccines that are not available on the NHS will vary, depending on the vaccine and number of doses you need.

It's worth considering this when budgeting for your trip.

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

Which travel vaccines are free?

The following travel vaccines are available free on the NHS from your GP surgery:

polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)
typhoid
hepatitis A
cholera

These vaccines are free because they protect against diseases thought to represent the greatest risk to public health if they were brought into the country.

Which travel vaccines will I have to pay for?

You'll have to pay for travel vaccinations against:

Yellow fever vaccines are only available from designated centres.

The cost of travel vaccines that are not available on the NHS will vary, depending on the vaccine and number of doses you need.

It's worth considering this when budgeting for your trip.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.

Travel Questionnaire

Travelling in Europe

If you are travelling to Europe the EU has published useful information for travellers on the European website.

Non-NHS Services

Some services provided are not covered under our contract with the NHS and therefore attract charges. Examples include the following:

Medicals for pre-employment, sports and driving requirements (HGV, PSV etc.)
Insurance claim forms
Prescriptions for taking medication abroad
Private sick notes
Vaccination certificates

The fees charged are based on the British Medical Association (BMA) suggested scales and our reception staff will be happy to advise you about them along with appointment availability.

GP Earnings

All GP practices are required to declare the average mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.

The average pay for GP's working in The Limes Medical Centre in the last financial year was £89,940 before Tax and National Insurance. This is for 5 full time GP's and 1 part-time salaried who worked in the practice for more than six months.

However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice and should not be used for any judgment about GP earnings, nor to make any comparisons with other practices.

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