Clinics

Various clinics are held each week that are run by the Doctors and Practice Nurses. During these clinics patients weight, height, blood pressure, urine tests are carried out. The clinics provide an ideal opportunity to discuss alcohol consumption, diet and exercise. We also take cervical smears, do breast checks and teach self-breast examination techniques.

Those patients who are on regular treatment for blood pressure, asthma or diabetes are regularly reviewed to discuss their treatment every few months. We are a fully computerised practice and have an excellent recall system through which we monitor and invite patients to attend as and when appropriate.

Antenatal Clinic
Asthma Clinic
Diabetic Clinic
Family Planning Clinic
Health promotion
Immunisation
Minor Surgery
Physiotherapy
Smoking Cessation
Stress Counselling
Wart clinic
Well Baby Clinic

Antenatal Clinic

The clinic is run by the Midwife each Tuesday from 1.00 p.m. A full range of maternity services are provided for the patients at this clinic.

All consultations are by appointment only.

At the first ante natal visit expectant mothers are seen by the Mid Wife.

During this consultation

• The date of the last menstrual period is checked.
• A referral is made to the hospital - (Shared Care)

What happens when you attend the Ante Natal Clinic?

• A Blood Pressure reading is taken at every visit
• Urine is tested at every visit
• After the first sixteen weeks of pregnancy your baby’s heart will be listened to regularly, and monitored.
• Any general advice and questions about your pregnancy will be discussed fully with you and any worries and/or concerns addressed.

Advice will be given on request about:
• Healthy eating - and what foods should be avoided
• Smoking Cessation
• Alcohol consumption

Home confinement can be arranged - please speak to your midwife for details.

Hospital Births can be arranged in:
• The Consultant Unit at Royal Preston Hospital
• The Midwife Led Unit at Chorley Hospital.

Please speak to either the midwife or Health Visitor if you would like to make use of this service.

Post Natal Care

Following the birth the midwife always visits the mother and baby upon discharge from hospital, and they are responsible for their care for up to 28 days if necessary.

Discharge can be as early as 10 days after delivery.

The midwife’s role is to care for both mother and baby, paying particular attention to physical and psychological health, breast and bottle-feeding, and postnatal exercises.

The midwife will also liase with the G.P. and Health Visitor when appropriate.

Stress Counselling Clinic

The Chorley & South Ribble PCT provides a comprehensive Counselling Service. If you feel you need to see a counsellor please contact your Doctor who will be happy to refer you.

Mrs Trisha Williams, although now employed as part of the Community Mental Health Team, she holds sessions at Kingsfold Medical Centre on Tuesday and Thursday.

The Chorley & South Ribble PCT makes these appointments and therefore Kingsfold staff are unable to access these appointments directly from the surgery.

What is... Counselling?

.... Counselling is a private and confidential service.

Counselling is a joint process in which the counsellor and the client work together. It is not a quick and easy solution to life’s problems. Through Counselling people can learn to understand themselves and their life situations more clearly and begin to make decisions about achieving a more satisfying life.

Our in-house counsellor is highly trained to deal with a wide variety of problems including: depression, anxiety, marriage or relationship difficulties crisis of confidence and bereavement.

At your first meeting the counsellor will listen to your problems, and explore ways to help you start achieving a more satisfying life. She will also discuss with you what help you need and whether she feels she can offer you this. If you both decide Counselling will be of help, she will arrange to see you for an agreed number of sessions, each one lasting for approximately 50 minutes . Each person needs a varying number of sessions, some more, some less. Individual needs will be reviewed as the Counselling progresses.

Counselling cannot solve all our problems and is not always the most suitable form of help, but many people have found it a great help

What you can expect from us...

We will offer your first appointment as quickly as we can; if at the end of this appointment, it is agreed the counsellor may be able to help you, she will outline the times and number of sessions you will be expected to attend.

What we expect from you...

Once Counselling begins, you will be expected to keep your appointments.

If you do need to cancel an appointment, please let us know as soon as possible, so that we can arrange to see someone else. The counsellor will offer you another appointment, but regrets that if you cancel too many times you may not be offered a further session.

If you wish to stop your treatment at any time, you may do so by informing the counsellor. If you wish to have a relative or friend with you during the Counselling session, please discuss this with the counsellor prior to your appointment time

Psychiatric Nurse

The Chorley & South Ribble PCT provide a comprehensive Community Psychiatric Service.

In order to gain access to this service you will need to contact your Doctor who will make the appropriate referral for you.

Mr McgGivern is based at the Community Mental Health Team Office in Bow Lane Preston.

His present role is to assess, monitor support and treat people suffering from a wide range of mental illnesses or psychological disorders including:

• Depression, Anxiety/Stress
• Eating Disorders
• Substance Abuse
• Bereavement
• Relationship Problems
• Survivors of Sexual Abuse
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Telephone 01772 – 401255

Physiotherapy Clinic

What is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is a health care profession, It is concerned with analysing movement, pain and function disorders together with promoting health and fitness in all age groups. This is done by the prevention, treatment and management of disease and disability. Consultation, advice and treatment will be carried out by a Senior State Registered Chartered Physiotherapist who is skilled in the assessment of a wide variety of joint and soft tissue disorders.

Physiotherapy is provided within the Medical Practice to those patients referred by the Doctors. Please do not miss appointments without notifying the surgery. Your unwanted appointment could be used by another patient.

Physiotherapy is available on the NHS, at Royal Preston and Chorley Hospitals but referral must be made via your GP in the first instance.

What shall I wear?

Please wear clothing that will easily expose the area to be treated and allow freedom of movement. You may like to bring a pair of shorts for assessment of lower limb problems.

What will the physiotherapist do?

The physiotherapist will assess you on your first visit, explain the findings and recommend a treatment plan. With your agreement this will be implemented, monitored and revised as appropriate. Examples of treatment available include mobilisation, manipulation, massage, electrotherapy, exercise regimes, rehabilitation, gait analysis and self-help programmes.

Consent to treatment

If you wish to stop any part of your treatment at any time, you may do so by informing your physiotherapist. If you wish to have a relative or friend with you during treatment, please discuss this with your physiotherapist.

Physiotherapists do however hold regular private Physio/Sports Injury Clinics at the Medical Centre on Wednesday and Friday afternoon/evenings. Or at other times by mutual arrangement.

Physiotherapists are members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and have worked within the NHS for many years in addition to these private clinics.

To gain access to these clinics please telephone the surgery on 01772 746492

These clinics are strictly independent to Kingsfold Medical Centre and such we are unable to comment and become involved in the service provided.