We offer a range of clinics and services including those below:

• Child and teen health
• 6-8 week health check
• Childhood vaccination
• NHS health check
• Cervical screening
• Mental health services
• Long term conditions services
• End of life care
• Family planning and sexual health
• Travel health
• Joint, bone and muscle (musculoskeletal) health
• Health and wellbeing coaching
• Social prescribing

If you would like to receive any of the services below, please do request an appointment.

Child and Teen Health

The health of our children and young people is extremely important. If you ever have any concerns about your child’s health, the NHS: Children’s Health contains lots of helpful information. If you are unable to find the answer to your questions or concerns, then please request to book an appointment to discuss this with one of our doctors, nurses or other healthcare professionals.

We are also part of the Battersea Youth Clinic. The aim of the clinic is to offer a safe space for the young people of Battersea to access healthcare services and other local support. Whether it be advice on mental health, contraception, medicines, a sports injury or something more serious. We know having an appointment with a GP can be daunting and we want to help with this. A youth link worker will be part of the service, to support you through the process. Please fill out an online medical query form to refer yourself or a young person to this service.

We also work together with midwives, health visitors, social workers, school nurses and many others to proactively look after your child as they grow up. In the UK, regular health checks to monitor things such as weight and height are carried out by health visitors and school nurses.

At the surgery, we also carry out the 6-8 week newborn check and childhood immunisations.

6-8 Week Health Check

Your baby will be invited for a thorough physical examination. Your baby’s eyes, heart, hips and for boys testicles will be checked. They’ll also have their weight, length and head circumference measured.

They’ll also ask you how you’ve been feeling emotionally and physically since the birth of your baby.

Childhood Vaccination

Your baby will be offered the recommended childhood vaccinations to protect them against many serious and diseases.

You can find more information about the vaccinations at NHS Vaccinations.

If you have any questions about vaccinations that are not answered by the NHS page, then please do book a consultation with one of our nurses or doctors.

NHS Health Check

The NHS Health Check is a health check up for adults in England aged 40 to 74. It’s designed to spot early signs of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes or dementia. As we get older, we have a higher risk of developing one of these conditions. An NHS Health Check helps find ways to lower this risk.

If you’re in the 40 to 74 age group without a pre-existing condition, you should receive an invite from the Practice for a free NHS Health Check every 5 years. You can also request an appointment to book a Health Check.

NHS: Health Check has more information about what to expect at an NHS health check and why we offer them.

Cervical Screening

Screening is a way of identifying apparently healthy people who may have an increased risk of a particular condition. The NHS offers a range of screening tests to different sections of the population. You will be invited automatically by the NHS centrally for screening when a screening test is due.

The practice carries out cervical screening on site at the practice. You can book this by requesting a routine appointment.

More information about the national screening programme can be found at NHS: Screening. If you have further questions that are not answered on this website, then please book an appointment to discuss this further with one of our doctors, nurses or other healthcare professionals.

Mental Health Services

Mental health is incredibly important. If you have any concerns about your mental health or someone else’s mental health, the MIND website and the NHS: Mental health offer lots of useful information.

If this does not answer your concern or you feel that it would be an appropriate next step, please book an appointment with one of our doctors.

If it is an urgent issue, please call the practice if we are open and ask for an urgent phone call. Alternatively, call 111 if we are shut. We are not able to respond as quickly as emergency services, and so if you are concerned that it is an emergency, call 999.

Our doctors, nurses or other healthcare professionals are trained to support people with mental health issues and we work closely with services from charities, Talk Wandsworth and our local specialist mental health teams to support our patients.

We also have a member of Wandsworth Community Drug and Alcohol Service who attends the practice weekly to support any of our patients who would like help with regard to their use of alcohol or recreational drugs.

Long Term Conditions Services

Long term conditions are incredibly important. The whole practice team work together to support you with your long term condition. Our whole team is committed to caring for your long term health conditions. This involves:

• Inviting you to check up appointments.
• Helping you find the right medication.
• Supporting you to exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet.
• Finding local and national support groups.
• Supporting you with your mental health as you navigate living with a long-term condition.

Because of this wide range of support, you may be contacted by a social prescriber, a member of our patient care co-ordination team, a pharmacist, a doctor, a physician’s associate or a member of our nursing team.

We will invite you for regular check-ups depending on your conditions. But if you have any concerns or queries, then do book an appointment at the practice. If you are not sure who might be best placed to answer your query, then do ask a member of our patient co-ordination team by sending the practice using our query form or by phoning.

End of Life Care

We recognise that caring for someone as they approach the end of their life is incredibly important.

If you think that you or someone you care for is approaching the end of their life, please raise this with their usual doctor or another member of the practice team. You may also find that your doctor raises this with you first.

The whole practice team is often involved in caring for someone as they approach the end of their life, and we also work with a wide range of community teams including our local hospice, the Royal Trinity Hospice and community nursing teams.

Family Planning And Sexual Health

Our doctors and nurses provide a full range of contraceptive services, including coil fitting, depot injections and implants. We offer a symptom based sexual health service for both men and women.

We can test for sexually transmitted diseases in the surgery with simple non-invasive tests. We are part of the national chlamydia screening programme for 16 to 24 year olds.

We are currently not commissioned to do routine sexual health screens, you will need to go to local Sexual Health clinics for these.

Oral Contraception

The most popular form of contraception is still the pill. We like to check all new patients to whom we prescribe the pill, taking a full history and measuring blood pressure.

We take the opportunity to do a cervical smear and chlamydia test as appropriate. We follow up after three or six months. If the pill is well tolerated, we only need to check you every year.

Condoms

We cannot prescribe condoms on the NHS. You can buy them from chemists or obtain them free from family planning clinics.

Coil Fitting

We are fitting more and more intra-uterine devices these days, especially Mirena and Kyleena, the progesterone-releasing coils. Please make an appointment to discuss the coil.

If you decide to have one fitted, you will need a coil fitting appointment with Dr Lucas and a nurse, at the appropriate time in your cycle. Please remember to take a painkiller before you come for the fitting, as the procedure can be uncomfortable and give some period like cramps afterwards.

Cap Fitting

We can fit you with a contraceptive diaphragm, or ‘cap’, and teach you how to use it. Nuva ring and Evra. We can also offer the new vaginal ring which is the equivalent of the combined pill and the contraceptive patch if other methods don’t suit.

Injectable Contraception

We offer three monthly progesterone injections, which provide very reliable contraception. They are particularly suitable for people with high blood pressure, people who are likely to forget the pill, and people who don’t want a coil.

Contraceptive Implant

Dr Lucas and Dr Carter offer Nexplanon progesterone implants, which provide very reliable contraception. They are particularly suitable for people with high blood pressure, people who are likely to forget the pill, and people who don’t want a coil. They last 3 years.

Travel Health

We offer a full travel advice and immunisation service. If you are travelling abroad please book an appointment with one of our nurses with plenty of time (we recommend 6-8 weeks) before your journey. Vaccines need time to take effect and some may require a course over several weeks.

If you have been advised by the surgery to complete a travel risk assessment, you will need to complete our Travel Risk Assessment Form – if the link to this no longer works, please use our online query form to request a new link or call the practice.

Joint, bone, muscle and tendon (musculoskeletal) health

We have a team of First Contact Physiotherapists (FCPs) who assess, diagnose and manage musculoskeletal conditions.

You do not need to see a GP to get an appointment with an FCP. Request to book an appointment and explain that you have a problem with your joints, bones, muscles or tendons.

Your FCP will take a detailed history of your condition, they may also question some of your past medical history to gain a better understanding of your symptoms, your general health and help rule other causes. They will then assess the area causing problems to aim to gain a detailed diagnosis, which will be explained to you.

You can read more about how FCPs work and what to expect here.

Dr Zuberi also regularly performs joint injections in her clinic. This is usually for painful, often arthritic joints. Please request an appointment for your condition to be assessed, the doctor, nurse or other healthcare professional you see can then discuss whether an injection would be beneficial and arrange this for you.

Our FCP service is provided via our Primary Care Network through St. George’s University Hospitals.

Health and Wellbeing coaching

Our health and wellbeing coaches will work with you to help you make changes in your lifestyle to manage your own health and wellbeing.

Examples this can help with include:

• Supporting your mental health
• Healthy eating
• Moving more
• Managing long-term conditions, such as diabetes, better

They will usually offer up to 6 sessions. Please request to book an appointment if you would like to access this service. You will usually have an appointment with another member of the team first, for example one of our GPs, Nurses, Physician’s Associates or Pharmacists. They can then refer you if you still agree that this is the right course of action.

Social Prescribing

Social prescribing is a service that enables staff in primary care to support their patient’s wellbeing through non-medical “prescriptions”. As link workers they will spend time with each patient, to focus on listening to them, understanding what’s important to them at the moment and explore together what could help support them with the issues they are facing.

Examples of reasons for referral are:

• Mental health issues.
• Managing long term conditions.
• Weight management.
• Social needs, and more.

Link workers adopt a holistic approach and most often the conversation does not remain on one issue. I think it’s powerful for patients to be able to voice their concerns and hear them said out loud, it enables thought processes and can help boost the confidence needed to be able to tackle things one step at a time.

This services is provided via our Primary Care Network through Enable.

Social Prescribing

Social prescribing is a service that enables staff in primary care to support their patient’s wellbeing through non-medical “prescriptions”. As link workers they will spend time with each patient, to focus on listening to them, understanding what’s important to them at the moment and explore together what could help support them with the issues they are facing.

Examples of reasons for referral are:

• Mental health issues.
• Managing long term conditions.
• Weight management.
• Social needs, and more.

Link workers adopt a holistic approach and most often the conversation does not remain on one issue. I think it’s powerful for patients to be able to voice their concerns and hear them said out loud, it enables thought processes and can help boost the confidence needed to be able to tackle things one step at a time.

This services is provided via our Primary Care Network through Enable.