Clinics & Services

Immunisations

The health visitors hold an immunisation clinic at Houston on a Monday from 9.10am - 12.10pm.

Well Baby Drop-In Clinics

2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month: Linwood Health Centre, 11.00am -1.00pm.

For further information, please contact the health visiting team on 01505 821405 or 01505 821412.

Antenatal Clinics

The community midwives hold antenatal clinics at the following times:

Houston Monday 2.00 - 3.45pm

Bridge of Weir Tuesday 1.30 - 3.15pm

You are also welcome to attend for antenatal care during normal surgery times with the doctor of your choice.

Other services

All GP practices are contracted to provide 'essential services', that is, basic treatment of ill people. We also provide the following 'additional services':

• Child health surveillance, together with the health visiting team.
• Contraception services including specialist services such as coil insertion.
• Maternity services in the antenatal and postnatal period, together with midwives from Paisley Maternity Hospital.
• Routine immunisation of children, together with the health visiting team.
• Immunisation for adults in relation to travel (not all travel immunisations are available on the NHS).
• Cervical smears.
• Annual flu immunisation programme to protect the elderly and those at risk.
• Regular monitoring, by blood and urine tests, for patients on a range of drugs for arthritis and bowel problems.
• Annual comprehensive reviews for patients with heart disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, asthma, COPD or chronic bronchitis, hypothyroidism, cancer, hypertension, and mental health problems.
• Well man and well woman checks.
• Smoking cessation advice.
• Weight reduction advice.

Specimens & Investigations

If you are asked to bring any kind of specimen to either surgery, please do so before 10.30am (please ensure that the correct forms are enclosed with the specimen), at which time a van from the laboratory collects all specimens.

The doctor or other member of staff will advise when results of investigations are likely to be available and at which surgery.

For test results, please phone after 11.30am.

Please allow one week for blood, stool or urine results, and four weeks for smear results.

Results will be given only to the patient (unless the patient is under the age of 16) and not to a representative of the patient unless written permission is received by the practice.

Hospital Referrals

Please contact one of our secretaries or leave a message with our receptionists if you have not received, within four weeks, a date for your out-patient appointment, or an acknowledgement that you have been put on a waiting list, with an appointment time to follow.

Non-NHS Services

The NHS does not cover certain services provided by your doctor. Please ask the receptionist, who can tell you the fee involved, which will be in accordance with British Medical Association recommendations. Examples of these services are: