We can provide pre-employment medicals, company pension scheme medicals, sickness-absence medicals and reports, retirement medicals and LGV and PCV driver medicals.

Medical examinations usually take 40 minutes to complete and are charged as two standard consultation sessions.

There are no standing charges, registration fees or on-going costs for these services.

Prescription-Only Medication. We can prescribe treatments, to appropriate patients, which are either unavailable or are difficult to obtain from the NHS.

Examples include Relenza (the antiviral treatment for Flu from Glaxo), Xenical (the fat-blocker treatment from Roche), Ciproxin (for prevention of travel-related enteritis - see below) and Reductil and Xenical for weight reduction.

Flu Vaccination -

NHS GPs are strictly prohibited from privately vaccinating their own NHS patients, who do not fall into the at risk groups (under 65 years of age and not suffering from specified diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma) against flu.

This means that most healthy working age patients can only obtain flu vaccination privately. Studies in the US (2006) estimate that the annual U.S. cost of employee adsence due to flu approaches 10 Billion Dollars. Proportionate costs are likely in the UK.

In the case of pandemic (avian) flu costs can only be guessed at.

We can provide Flu vaccination for all employees at a cost of £15 (in the case of larger emploers discounts are available). Employees can visit our centre for individual vaccination, but for groups of 20 or more employees our nurses can visit the workplace

We can also provide the highly effective antivirals Tamiflu and Relenza which at lower dose protect against both forms of flu but at higher dose are also highly effective treatments - in the early stages of flu Relenza virtually aborts the illness. We can only provide antiviral provision to larger companies of 10 or more individuals because during any crises there have previously been sudden limitations of stocks due to demand.

The  combination of employee vaccination and antiviral availability for key personnel will provide employers with the maximum protection currently possible against these eventualities.

Corporate Foreign Travel. Corporate overseas travel can carry health risks. Routine travel vaccinations (Tetanus, Polio, Hepatitis A and Typhoid) are ideally obtained from a patient's NHS GP, as these vaccinations are free under NHS provision and NHS GPs have the best record of each individual's vaccination history.

Some foreign travel vaccinations have to be obtained privately - the most common one being Yellow Fever vaccine. We can provide Yellow Fever vaccination to appropriate patients for a fee of £40 - including cost of the vaccine and a Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate. Yellow Fever vaccination is a requirement of entry to a number of Central African and Central South American Countries. We also prescribe Anti-Malarial treatments for visitors to endemic areas.

Ciprofloxacin. The most frequently acquired infection from foreign travel is travellers diarrhoea - an infection usually caused by a foreign strain of the E Coli bowel organism. In some countries where sanitation is poor, with limited access to bottled water supplies, infection rates can be very high. Ciproxin (Ciprofloxacin), a quinolone antibiotic, can be taken in these circumstances to prevent these potentially serious infections.

We can prescribe Ciprofloxacin privately for prevention of travel-related enteritis - this is not available through the NHS.

Investigations. We provide a service to take blood samples which are analysed by a local laboratory. The laboratory charges vary according to how detailed the investigation required but usually fall in the range of £30 to £40.

Other Corporate Services.

We act as a regional centre for new employee examination, identifcation and DNA recording for a large Multinational Company. Prospective employees supply two passport sized photographs and have a full medical examination, including a lung function test, an HIV (Aids) test and DNA profiling (in conjunction with Orchid Cellmark). Our fee for this service is £150.  Our fee for DNA sampling alone (again in conjunction with 2 passport photographs of the individual) is £30. The individual's signature is also recorded at the time of sampling. A separate fee is payable to Orchid Cellmark for analysis and archiving of the DNA in both instances.

Appointments can be booked via our switchboard but please ensure that the switchboard are aware if medical is required as our staff will book 40 minute appointment. 

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