Clinics We Offer
Information for patients to support access to clinics
LSCFT BLOOD CLINIC TIMETABLE OCT 25.docx
For information on how a blood sample is taken and what happens in the appointment please click here
If you require a routine OR urgent blood test, please book online or ask a member of our Patient Services Team
Only the patient requiring the blood test should enter the clinic unless assistance is required by a carer or relative for the duration.
If you have been asked by the hospital or another provider to have a venous sample taken then please note you will be asked to attend the hospital blood clinics
CHILD HEALTH CLINIC
The practice provides a full child health service for all locally registered children up to the age of 5 years.
Important - please continue to attend for childhood vaccinations
If your child is unwell please contact the surgery to let them know and to rearrange your given appointment time.
CONTRACEPTION
The clinicians provide advice on all methods of contraception, including fitting caps/coils, contraception implants and injections.
This, like all other services provided by the practice, is completely confidential.
CORONARY HEART DISEASE PREVENTION / STROKE / TIA / ATRIAL FIBRILLATION / PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE CLINIC
The practice holds regular healthy heart clinics.
Patients who are on our Long Term Conditions register will be invited for an annual check-up.
This will involve a non-fasting blood test followed up by a telephone or face to face appointment where appropriate with the Practice Pharmacist where your results will be discussed and your medication reviewed.
DIABETIC CLINICS
The surgery offers a comprehensive service to diabetic patients.
All patients on our Diabetic Register will be invited to receive an annual telephone check-up, foot screening and ophthalmology check.
RESPIRATORY - Asthma and COPD Clinic
These are specialist run clinics, providing up to date medical advice, medication reviews and spirometry for patients with this condition.
All patients on the register for asthma or COPD will be contacted for an annual telephone or face to face review where appropriate.
HYPERTENSION CLINIC
If you have a history of raised blood pressure this is called Hypertension.
We invite patients on our practice register for an annual telephone or face to face review where appropriate, unless you have been seen in one of our other clinics.
This check-up will involve a non-fasting blood test and a review of your records and results by one of our clinicians.
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
If you are troubled by anxiety, depression, stress, relationship problems etc. and wish to access support then please complete a triage form to see Michelle, our Mental Health Practitioner based in the practice, alternatively patients can access the service Every Mind Matters - NHS
MATERNITY SERVICES SELF-REFERRAL
As soon as you find out you are pregnant you have the option to book your maternity care directly with Lancashire teaching Hospitals instead of seeing your GP.
Please visit https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/pregnancy-self-referral/ and complete the self-referral form, we encourage you to do this as soon as possible so you can see your midwife and have your early screening tests. When you submit the form the booking team will arrange your first booking appointment and should notify your GP of your pregnancy. If you do not receive an appointment within 2 weeks then please call the booking team on 01772 524726
FOLIC ACID - It is recommended that you start taking Folic acid (0.4mg) supplements as early in pregnancy as possible. These tablets are widely available in pharmacies and supermarkets. Folic acid is important for the development of your baby’s nervous system
The clinicians provide full postnatal care at Longton Health Centre.
Post-natal (6 week) checks are carried out by the GP and appointments are made during normal surgery time up to 2 weeks in advance.
CERVICAL SCREENING
Cervical screening invitation process - Changes affecting patients from the 1st July 2025
When you'll be invited for cervical screening - NHS
When you'll be invited for cervical screening
Who cervical screening is for
All women and people with a cervix between the ages of 25 and 64 should go for regular cervical screening.
You'll be invited for screening every 5 years from when you're 25 to 64 years old. You'll get your first invitation a few months before you turn 25.
You may be invited more regularly if you have HPV.
If you're 65 or older, you'll only be invited if a recent test was abnormal.
You'll get an invitation through the NHS App, by text or by letter asking you to make an appointment and telling you how to book.
You can book an appointment as soon as you get an invitation.
If you missed your last cervical screening, you do not need to wait for an invitation to book an appointment.
If you're trans or non-binary
If you're a trans man or are non-binary and have a cervix, how you're invited depends on the sex you're registered with at a GP surgery.
- If you're registered as female with a GP, you'll automatically be invited for cervical screening.
- If you're registered as anything other than female, such as male or indeterminate, you may not be invited for cervical screening automatically – speak to your GP surgery, sexual health service, or transgender health clinic and ask to get invitations automatically.
If you're a trans woman or are non-binary and do not have a cervix, you do not need to have cervical screening. But, if you're registered with a GP as female, you may still be invited. Contact your GP surgery, sexual health service or transgender health clinic and ask to stop being invited.
Find out more about population screening for trans and non-binary people on GOV.UK
When cervical screening is not recommended
If you're under 25
You will not be invited for cervical screening until you're 25 because:
- cervical cancer is very rare in people under 25
- it might mean you have treatment you do not need – abnormal cell changes often go back to normal in younger women
If you're 65 or older
You'll usually stop being invited for screening once you turn 65. This is because it's very unlikely that you'll get cervical cancer if your recent tests did not find anything.
You'll only be invited again if a recent test was abnormal.
If you're 65 or older and have never been for cervical screening, or have not had cervical screening since the age of 50, you can ask your GP for a test.
If you've had a total hysterectomy
You will not need to go for cervical screening if you've had a total hysterectomy to remove all of your womb and cervix.
You should not receive any more screening invitations.
Non-urgent advice: See a GP if:
You're worried about symptoms of cervical cancer such as:
- bleeding between periods, during or after sex, or after you've been through the menopause
- unusual vaginal discharge
Do not wait for your next cervical screening appointment.
Page created: 18 August 2021
