Surgery clinics

Gloucestershire county council helps you find your own solutions to stay independent, or may offer you some short term support to get you back on your feet, staying by your side until you are confidently living an independent life. For those who need a plan for their long term care and support, the council works with partners and providers to offer the highest quality of support that it can.

The role of adult social care at the county council is to make sure adults (aged 18 or over) and their carers (including young carers) who need care or support in their daily lives can get the help and advice they need to live as independently as possible. Care and support can be a mixture of practical, financial and emotional support for people who need extra help to manage their lives and be independent.

Patients at Price’s Mill Surgery can self refer to adult social care by visiting:

Adult social care – general enquiry form.

Antenatal clinics are held by a midwife on Tuesday afternoons. You can self refer to the midwifery service by visiting:

Self refer your pregnancy to Gloucestershire maternity.

Baby checks and immunisations can be dealt with by the practice nurse and a GP during normal surgery hours.

Invitations for cervical screening are the responsibility of the Integrated Care Board (ICB). You may subsequently receive a reminder from us, please book an appointment with the practice nurse.

We offer all routine childhood immunisations to our patients. Invitations are sent out centrally when your child is due for these but you may also receive reminders from the practice. Nasal flu vaccination is also offered annually to two and three year olds.

Information about childhood immunisations can be found on the NHS choices website or through speaking to the nurse or GP in the surgery.

Should you not wish your child to have these immunisations, we will require written confirmation of your decision by printing and completing our child immunisation form (PDF) and returning it to the surgery.

The Stroud and Berkeley Vale community wellbeing team is part of a countywide service and may be able to offer support and advice to guide you during a short or long term health situation.

For more information about the service please visit our community wellbeing service page.

Advice about the full range of contraceptive methods is available from our nurse practitioner, Zoe. Contraceptive implants and coils can be fitted or changed.

Our practice nurses, Liesl Smith and Julie Lumley have undertaken additional study which allows them to specialise in diabetes care. They perform diabetes reviews via phone appointment or face to face consultation.

Clinics for seasonal flu and pneumonia vaccination are held annually from September. Dates for these clinics are posted in the practice reception area, widely advertised in the local community and posted on the practice web site. If you have missed a clinic, please contact the practice using the Anima service.

Patients with asthma, diabetes, heart, kidney or chest diseases and also patients over 65 or immunocompromised are encouraged to attend. Carers and healthcare workers are also entitled to be immunised.

Visit the NHS flu vaccination pages for further information.

Run by the practice nurses, they monitor and help control high blood pressure. If you have been advised by the surgery to submit your blood pressure readings on a regular basis please use the Anima service.

Appointments are made with Dr Malins after discussion with your own doctor. Minor operations are performed during normal consultation hours.

The MMR vaccine is safe and effective but the discredited headlines of the 1990s have left many teenagers without adequate protection from measles, mumps and rubella (german measles). If you have children who have missed out on this essential vaccination, please make an appointment.

A practice nurse is a qualified nurse who has undertaken further training in many aspects of community health. In addition to providing general nursing care. Our nurses and healthcare assistants undertake:

• Wound and dressing management
• Blood tests (phlebotomy)
• 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
• Injections
• B12 injections
• Chronic disease clinics
• Asthma
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Coeliac
• Diabetes
• Coronary heart disease
• Hypertension
• Hypothyroidism
• Women’s health
• Cervical screening
• Contraception
• ECG on referral from doctor
• NHS health checks for patients aged 40-74 years
• Frailty care coordination
• Enhanced access on Monday evenings and alternate Saturdays

Post natal appointments can be made with your doctor during normal surgery times.

Pregnant women are advised to have flu and whooping cough vaccinations during their pregnancy. Please speak to your midwife about when this should happen.

Further information about the whooping cough vaccination programme is available from the department of health website at www.dh.gov.uk/whooping-cough.

If you are in your 70s, you are now entitled to receive a shingles vaccination.

Please contact the practice if you would like more details.

We provide a travel vaccination clinic (that no longer includes yellow fever), to our own patients only. Please allow plenty of time before you travel as it can take 3 months to fully vaccinate. Please view our vaccinations page for more information.

INR clinics are provided by our healthcare assistants, allowing doctors to adjust the dose of your medication.