Clinics

In addition to general consulting, a number of specialised clinics are in operation. 

Antenatal

A midwife offers appointments at the surgery two sessions per week, usually a Tuesday morning and a Thursday morning. The Tuesday morning appointment is mainly for patients attending for the first time (booking visit). The GP or midwife will explain at your first visit how your care will be organised during your pregnancy.

Child Health Surveillance & Vaccinations

The health surveillance clinic is held on Wednesday afternoons.
Checks offered:

• 6 Weeks Developmental/Physical
• The Health Visitor and a doctor are in attendance.

Developmental Checks in accordance with the National Guidance

Childhood vaccination is done only at the vaccination clinic which takes place every Tuesday afternoon.

Please telephone the surgery on 01563 522118, or call at reception, to make an appointment for either of these clinics.

Minor Illness Clinic

The minor illness clinic is a nurse-led clinic, held daily, and supported by the doctors for advice or prescriptions. You will usually be seen by the Nurse Practitioner.  Common problems seen at this clinic include sore throat, sore ears, possible urine infections and rashes.

The Nurse Practitioner is Sister Stewart. If she is unavailable, advice calls will be taken by Sister Wylie.

Nursing Staff Appointments

The Practice Nurses and District Nurses also offer appointments every day. They offer a wide range of services including dressings, injections, immunisations, blood tests, removal of stitches, dietary advice, weight control counselling, blood pressure checks, ear syringing, cervical smears, Well Woman and Well Man checks. They also work with the doctors to provide regular review clinics for patients with high blood pressure, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, and heart disease.

Please consider an appointment with one of the nursing staff, as an alternative to a doctor's appointment if your requirements fall into one of these categories.

Well Baby Clinic

A Well Baby Clinic for Mother and Baby is held by the Health Visitor on Thursday afternoons between 2.00pm and 3.30pm. This enables parents to discuss weaning, developmental/behavioural problems with the Health Visitor.

Digital Scales are available for use by asking any of the receptionists.  These can be used in the Baby Change/Breast Feeding Room.

Other Clinics Offered

• Asthma Clinic
• Blood Pressure Screening
• Contraceptive Advice
• COPD Clinic (Chronic Chest Disease)
• Counselling Service
• Diabetic Clinic
• Dietary Advice
• Epilepsy Clinic
• Heart Disease Review Clinic
• High-blood-pressure Clinic
• Immunisation Clinic
• Princess Royal Trust for Carers
• Second-line Monitoring in Rheumatology
• Smoking Cessation Clinic
• Basic Travel Vaccination
• Warfarin Monitoring Clinic
• Wart Clinic
• Well Person Check-ups

The practice has a full range of diagnostic equipment including ECG machine, Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor, Spirometry, and minor surgery equipment to enable us to provide as full a service as possible in-house.

We provide a practise-based anti-coagulant monitoring service for patients on Warfarin therapy who prefer to attend the practice rather than a hospital out-patient clinic. We aim to keep up-to-date with medical advances, and to provide a chronic disease monitoring service.

Regular audit is undertaken of chronic disease management and other aspects of clinical and administrative work.

Travel Vaccinations

When travelling abroad it is often necessary to be given a course of vaccination treatment to prevent the spread of infectious disease.  The basic vaccinations are available from the surgery.  Vaccinations are carried out by the practice nurse. 

Many people are now travelling to exotic destinations or have complex itineraries.  It is the patient's own responsibility to find out their individual requirements for these more complex vaccinations schedules or malaria advice.  Advice may be available from your travel agent, or you can make an appointment at the Travel Advice Clinic at Ayrshire Central Hospital contact number 01563 577970.  The Glasgow Travel clinics has a base in Prestwick contact number 0141 848 4800.

You can also vist the NHS "Fit For Travel" website to find out which vaccinations you may require.  Alternatively you can visit the Department of Health Advice for Oversease Travellers website.

There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Carribean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific