Carrington House Surgery

First Contact Physio

0nline appointments to see our Physio will be available to book online from Monday 2nd December, you need to have patient access to use this service.
What is a first contact physio appointment? 
First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) are physiotherapists usually based in GP surgeries. They can assess and diagnose what’s happening, Give expert advice on how best to manage your condition and refer on to specialist services if necessary.
If you have further questions please call the surgery.

Clinics

NHS clinics and services - practice

We provide a full range of services under contract to NHS England

The range of clinics includes:

Health promotion

Health checks include

Healthy living

There is further information on improving your general health under

Screening

Disease prevention – screening

  • Cervical cytology: Support with cervical screening includes information and a helpline to help with having a smear. This also includes when and how you will be invited for cervical screening.
  • Child health surveillance with the support of our local health visiting team.

Smear Results

Smear test results take 6-8 weeks on average and are posted out to patients.

Practice services

Available practice clinics

Further information

General Information

Chronic disease clinics

These clinics are run by our nurses for any patient with a long term condition.

Long-term conditions

Common long-term conditions include:

  • Asthma
  • COPD
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Coronary heart disease
  • Heart failure
  • Stroke and TIAs
  • Epilepsy
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Hypothyroidism
    and more.

More information

There is more information under our practice section

This includes a link to more information about common long-term conditions for adults and children.

Sexual health

There is information on various aspects of sexual health including accessing various sexual health services under

Contraception

Contraception service: there is more information on contraception and the available options including on long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs) under

Coil / implant contraceptive devices at the surgery
Please see a GP first for contraceptive counselling, and then you will be able to book an appointment for the fitting of the coil/ implant contraceptive device.

Maternity services

Maternity medical services are provided with the support of our local maternity team. There is more information on pregnancy and local services under

  • Pregnancy – this includes how to self-refer to the local hospital

Enhanced services

We also provide some enhanced NHS services which include

  • Physiotherapy
  • Post Operative: suture/ staple removals
  • Zoladex injections

Other local clinics - external organisations

Plebotomy clinics
Phlebotomy appointments are available to book, see section “Booking a test requested by a practice clinician” under investigations.

Baby drop in clinics – no booking required
Drop in baby clinics for well children are held by the Health Visitor team at a number of locations. No booking is required. You can find out more about these clinics if you search using the term “child health drop-in” under

You can also call the Health Visitor to make an appointment. Their contact details can be found in contact details under the tab “community teams working with the practice”.

There are a number of clinics and services which are provided on our premises by external organisations

  • Oxford mental health Practitioner
  • Social Prescribing Link Worker
  • Midwife
  • First Contact Physiotherapist

In practice self-referrals

There may be some support in the practice you can access directly without needing to go through a doctor or nurse. Any “in practice self-referrals” can be found in the self-referral section under

NHS screening - national clinics

Many of the national screening programmes such as breast screening take place outside the practice, we fully support these national programmes and would encourage all our patients to take up these opportunities when you are invited.

There are links to easy reading support and helplines included below if you think you may have missed your screening opportunity.

As the NHS suggests
“Screening is a way of finding out if people have a higher chance of having a health problem, so that early treatment can be offered or information given to help them make informed decisions.”
“NHS screening.” The NHS website. Retrieved 19 July 2023.

Information and helplines for national screening

For information on screening see under

This includes

  • The national screening programme including breast screening, bowel screening, and much more.
  • Who to contact if you think you have missed your screening opportunity.
  • Easy reading and multi-language support.

Travel clinic - practice

Practice travel clinic

Information on practice travel clinic vaccinations can found under

General information

For general information on travel vaccinations, see under

Alternatives to services we no longer offer

For various reasons we may stop offering clinics and services that we have offered in the past. Any services we have stopped are included below:

  • Ear syringing
  • Leg Ulcers
  • Cryotherapy

Regrettably due to the increased demands on our service we are no longer able to offer an ear syringing service.  We have continued to offer this service for as long as we could without receiving any funding to do so but unfortunately the Partners have had to come to the difficult decision to prioritise the services for which we are contracted by NHS England. This procedure is not included in our GMS contract. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause but we are sure you will appreciate that we need appointments for things that are specified within the ‘core contract of services that we have to provide’.

Another option available to you is to find a private provider such as:

  • Chalfont Hearing Centre, 01494 765144
  • Help in Hearing, 0345 222 0579
  • Rickmansworth Earwax Removal Clinic, 0800 1337 987
  • Specsavers, 01895 256010

Disclaimer: The practice takes no responsibility for services given by other private providers.

Videos and podcasts

On the videos and podcasts page there are links to some relevant videos and podcasts covering various topics relating to our clinics and local services, including under wellbeing and disease prevention, health conditions, pregnancy and more.

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