NHS Services
General Appointments
Our doctors provide 10-minute appointments for consultations. Our nursing team appointments are of varying length depending on the type of service requested by you. Our consultations are set in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.
Specialist clinics
We provide a number of specialist health clinics on our premises:
- Diabetic clinic - held every Monday, Wednesdays and Thursday
- Asthma clinic, run by our respiratory nurse Annette on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- COPD clinic, run by Annette Saunders every Tuesday and Thursday
- Lifestyle & Weight Management clinic, held throughout the week with Joanne and Sister Laulette
- Smoking cessation, run by Joanne, throughout the working day
Antenatal and postnatal care
Our medical team work with the midwifery service (team 6) from by Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals. Antenatal clinics run every Wednesday morning at the surgery. Mother and baby post natal checks are undertaken at the surgery by Drs Dain, Trevor, Yeboah and Small.
Contraception
All clinicians with the exception of our health care assistant provide family planning advice during surgery hours. We provide short and long acting forms of contraception, barrier methods and coil insertions. Drs Dain, Trevor and Yeboah provide Parkfield’s coil fitting service.
Foreign travel clinic
Provided for you by our nursing team. We use the latest software to give you the most up to date service and advice. Parkfield Medical Centre is an approved yellow fever centre.
Link: Travel Advice
Please note that the NHS does not fund some vaccinations and travel medicines and a charge is applicable.
Cervical smears
Our nursing team provides this service. The cervical cytology test can be undertaken when a woman is not bleeding, ideally mid cycle. Simple book an appointment at reception.
Link: NHS Cervical Smear Screening
Childhood Vaccinations
This clinic runs every Thursday afternoon and is provided by our Health Visitor Lisa. On occasions childhood vaccinations can be booked at other times.
Immunisations
The surgery provides a comprehensive list of vaccinations, including travel and seasonal influenza vaccination. Parkfield Medical centre is a registered Yellow Fever Centre.
Phlebotomy clinics
Blood tests are taken at the surgery four days in every working week with the exception of Thursdays.
Minor surgery
A number of our doctors provide an injection service at the surgery. Joint injections can be used to treat a number of conditions, including tennis elbow and trochanteric bursitis.
Counselling
The surgery has access to two counselling services. Our counsellors provide a whole range of consulting techniques including supportive counselling, CBT, anger management and short course psychotherapy. Access to these services is a via a doctor's referral.
Chlamydia Screening
Available to all 15-24 year olds registered at the surgery. Getting tested for Chlamydia is quick, simple and confidential. It's just a simple urine test and you’ll receive your result back within a fortnight. If the test shows you have Chlamydia, don’t worry, as it can be treated with one dose of antibiotics.
Contact the surgery for a kit or pick up a kit from one of the stations around the surgery.
NHS cancer screening programmes
Link: Cancer Research UK
Breast Cancer screening
Breast cancer screening is a way of finding breast cancer at an early stage, when it may be too small to see or feel. If breast cancer is found earlier, treatment is usually easier or more likely to be successful. Breast cancer screening saves 1400 lives every year in England.
Who can have breast screening?
All women age 50 to 70 in the UK. Women receive their first invitation after they turn 50 but before they are 54.
Women are invited every 3 years for breast screening. Our Potters Bar patients last had the 3 yearly breast screening round in November 2008, and the next round is due in November 2011.
By 2012 the programme will extend to screen women age 47 to 73.
Over the age of 70, women are not called automatically for screening, but if you would like to be screened, please contact the North London Breast screening service or phone 020 8951 4045 and you will receive an appointment.
Cervical Cancer screening
Cervical cancer screening is a way of preventing cervical cancer and started in 1988. Since then, death rates for cervical cancer have reduced by around 7% per year.
Who can have cervical cancer screening (The ‘smear’ test)?
Women age 25 to 49 are invited for screening every 3 years.
Women age 50 to 64 are invited for screening every 5 years.
Women aged over 65 are only screened if they have not had a smear test since the age of 50 or if they have had recent abnormal results.
You will receive an invitation for cervical screening when your next test is due.
Bowel cancer screening
This a new screening programme. It helps find bowel cancer and pre cancerous growths that could eventually turn into cancer if untreated. It is estimated that by 2025 2000 lives will be saved every year by bowel cancer screening.
The bowel cancer screening test is called the FOBT (faecal occult blood test). The FOBT looks for traces o f blood in your motions and can be done in the privacy of your own home. Samples are sent to a lab for testing.
In England, men and women are invited for screening every 2 years.
If you are over 70, you can still take part in the screening programme but you will have to call to request a test kit.
The number to call is 0800 707 60 60.
