Some services are not provided by the NHS, as such they will attract a charge. Please contact reception for further information on the respective charges.
Requests for Forms and Reports
The doctor is able to sign and complete claims and forms on your behalf. However, this may have a charge associated with it. Our receptionists will advise you of the charges. Many of these charges can often be claimed back from your insurance company or employer.
Examples of these forms are:
- Private Sick Notes
- Holiday Cancellation
- Private Letters
- Insurance Claims
- Sickness / Accident Insurance
- Benefit Claims
- Freedom from Infection Certificates
Quote / Testimonial: Our Nurses can provide comprehensive travel health advice and arrange for appropriate immunisations.
Please arrange an appointment for a travel consultation at least 6-8 weeks before departure if possible.
Further Travel Information
The following websites will give you additional travel advice:
Travel Health – for information of vaccinations available on NHS
MASTA – for private vaccination clinics
Gov.uk – for specific country travel advice
EHIC – to apply for your free European Health Insurance Card
Childhood Immunisations
Our nurses administer all immunisations up to your child starting school. The first of these are given when your child is eight weeks old and you will be advised by the nurse when to book your child’s follow-up appointments.
Influenza/Pneumonia Vaccines
We offer these vaccinations to our patients over 65 and those at risk. For further information ask at reception.
It’s best to see the midwife as early as possible if you are or think you may be pregnant to get the information you need about having a healthy pregnancy.
The midwife providing your antenatal care will:
- check the health of you and your baby,
- give you useful information top help you have a healthy pregnancy, including advice about health eating and exercise
- discuss your options and choices for your care during pregnancy, labour and birth
- answer any questions you may have
The antenatal clinic is held on Tuesdays at Garforth and Thursday’s at Rothwell.
Please contact reception for further information.
To find out more information on the Midwifery service in Leeds, please visit: Pregnancy and maternity services – Leeds Health and Care Partnership (healthandcareleeds.org)
Postnatal Clinics
The doctors will perform a full postnatal check on you and your baby at 6 weeks post delivery. This is required prior to your baby receving any immunisations.
To make an appointment please contact the surgery.
We offer advice to both men and women on all aspects of family planning.
We have 2 GPs who can fit long acting contraception. Dr Sultan fits coils and Dr Garman fits implants.
Practice Nurses offer depo-provera injections and annual contraceptive pill checks at the surgery.
If you require emergency contraception (the morning after pill), please advise the receptionist when you are booking your appointment so that an early appointment can be offered.
Cervical smears should be done regularly between the ages of 25 to 65, you will recieve an invitation to attend the surgery when this is due and will be informed of your results in writing.
In order to keep your asthma or COPD under the best possible control, we encourage all patients to attend for regular reviews with our respiratory trained nurses.
Our nurse run service aims to give people living with diabetes the information needed to manage their condition.
We encourage people to attend for regular reviews when routine testing and checks will be carried out.
We offer a nurse run service to monitor our patients with high blood pressure, a history of heart disease or stroke or significant risk factors for these.
We will ask you to attend for regular reviews.
We can give individual advice on giving up smoking or provide you with details of group services that are available in the area.
Our practice nurses lead the service and can be seen anytime during their normal clinics. Please speak to a receptionist to arrange an appointment or ask for a “Quit whilst you are ahead” leaflet.