Newborns around 6-8 weeks are invited in for a health check.
Please see below for more information about your baby’s 6-8 week screening check.
If you would like to find out more information about what to do if your baby or young child is poorly click below to look at ‘The Little Orange Book’.
A warfarin dosing clinic is run out of the surgery
Ashfields offers both of these services. You need to book through reception or on our digital front door.
Ashfields has access to a SPLW who is a member of staff specialty trained in dealing with non-medical issues affecting patients. They are available to speak to and can offer advice and signpost to other organisations.
Ashfields has 3 MSK first contact specialists. These are highly trained physio who have Master’s degrees in diagnosing and triaging patients on first contact. They can organise scans and blood tests.
Ashfields operates as a DVT hub for the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP alliance practices. Patients suspected of having a Deep Vein Thrombosis will be referred for a scan at Ashfields then seen by a Ashfields GP after to let them know of the results. Followup care is by patients usual GP practice.
An innovative online gynae clinic run by a consultant gynaecologist. Referral is via GP.
The surgery hosts a specialist clinic for the assessment and management of dementia. A GP referral is needed to attend this clinic.
The memory clinic is run by CWP the local mental health trust. It is for patients experiencing memory issues who need assessing/diagnosing and for those with established dementia who need ongoing care.
We offer a range of minor surgery procedures for the removal of benign skin lesions and lumps inc sebaceous cysts. All skin cancers are normally referred to Leighton hospital. A referral from a GP is usually needed.This service is provided by four doctors: Dr. Gowda, Dr. Gunawardena, Dr. Rosson, and Dr. Whittaker. Minor surgery clinics are held on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursday – however, that this may change from time to time.
Please note that this is not a service that patients can freely book into – you can only access this by being referred – Recently we have started accepting referrals from other surgeries that are within our area.
Appointments are generally 15 minutes long.
Once your referral has been triaged by Dr. Gowda and confirmed, you will be offered an appointment in a separate clinic to the days listed above.
If you are unable to keep an appointment, please call the surgery to rearrange as we often have a waiting list and it will help us prevent appointments going to waste.
You can now request Travel vaccinations via our digital front door, if you are registered at our surgery, by clicking on the logo below.
You will be asked for your NHS number and date of birth for data protection reasons and we will send you a form to fill in.
If you are not registered at Ashfields you can still request travel vaccinations by visiting the practice and asking for a hard copy of the form.
This form has several questions to fill out that our nurse team will process before contacting you on the next steps.
Please make sure all travel forms are submitted to the surgery at least 8 weeks before your travel date, as our nurses need enough time to access your request and administer your vaccination course.
If you have less than 8 weeks left before you travel you may have to go to a private travel clinic that specialises in short course immunisation.
£30 (For Private/non-regular patients) This is taken at the point of completing your travel vaccine advice form.
The private vaccines that incur a cost and are not covered by the NHS are: