Services provided at the surgery
Our practice nurses have clinics throughout the day and offer a wide range of services listed below. If you would like to see any of them, please make an appointment at reception. They are available from 8:30am - 12:00pm and 3:00pm - 6:00pm. All new patients will be asked to attend for a new patient check. If you have any health queries, a nurse will return your call as soon as possible.
- Regular health checks for men and women.
- Regular checks for people with diabetes, high blood pressure and respiratory disease.
- Advice on avoiding heart disease.
- Advice on a healthy diet / weight reduction.
- Repeat Contraception
- Cervical Smears
- Travel Health
- Ear Syringing
- Child Immunisations
- Wound Care
- Suture Removal
- COPD
- Stroke
- Emergency Contraception
- Chlamydia Screening
- ECG
Forms & Certificates | Cost |
Driving Licence Countersignature | £ 12.00 |
Private Health Insurance claim form | £ 15.00 |
Holiday Cancellation Insurance Certificate | £ 15.00 |
Fitness to Travel: Simple / Complex certificate, form, letter | £15.00 / £ 30.00 |
Access to Medical Records | |
Data Protection Act Fee | £ 10.00 |
Photocopies (per side) | 33p |
Recorded Delivery | £ actual |
Reports | |
Solicitors - Up to 2 hours / daily maximum | £ 52.80 / £211 |
Insurance GP report (no examination) - Supplementary Report | £ 84.00 £ 18.00 |
Fitness to Attend: Sports, Schools, University, etc - (no examination) | £ 16.00 |
Private Medical Insurance Claim Form | £ 17.50 - £ 37.50 |
Examinations | |
Insurance proposal: GP Examination and Report | £ 220 / hour |
Pre-employment Examination | £ 200 / hour |
Driving: HGV, PSV, Elderly, Taxi (with / without examination) | £ 180 / hour |
Sports Fees: Full examination with report | £ 180 / hour |
Fitness to attend: Sports, School, University - (full examination and Report) | £ 180 / hour |
Sickness / Accident Insurance: Examination / Report | £ 110.00 |
Letters | |
Solicitors / Employment / Sports Clubs - The charge depends upon the complexity of the letter and the amount of time taken by the doctor to compile the information. | £ 15 - £ 75 |
Travel Vaccinations (costs are per dose) | |
Meningitis A&C or ACWY (for the Hajj) | £ 35.00 |
Hepatitis B (course of 3 needed) | £ 20.00 |
Rabies (course of 3 needed) | £ 40.00 |
Malaria | £ 12.00 |
Yellow Fever | £ 42.00 |
Private Fees | |
| Private GP Consultation | £40.00 |
| Private Nurse Consultation | £40.00 |
| Private Home Visit | £40.00 |
| Private Sick Note | £40.00 |
| Private Prescription (Travel Only) | £40.00 |
| Private ECG | £40.00 |
Cheques to be made payable to 'Bedford Hill Family Practice'
Tuesday: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Thursday: 9.30am - 11.30am
Friday: 5.00pm - 7.00pm
This is a walk-in service, so you may need to wait. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the closing times stated above. The practice nurses will see patients in their normal clinics for repeat contraceptive pill prescriptions, emergency pill prescriptions and repeat contraceptive injections.
Doctors also perform antenatal care for our patients. Appointments are made during normal surgery times. The practice also asks all new mothers to attend a post-natal check, 6 weeks after the birth of your baby.
Baby clinics are held at the following times by appointment only. The clinic is for advice and routine child check ups and immunisations. If your baby is ill please make an appointment to see a doctor in a routine surgery.
| Monday 1.30pm-3.30pm | Health Visitors (Appt Only) - No Imms |
| Wednesday 9:30am-11:30am | Health Visitors (Drop In Clinic) - No Imms |
| Thursday 1:30pm-2:30pm | Health Visitors (Appt Only)- No Imms |
| Friday 2:00pm-4:30pm | Dr Knight and Practice Nurse (Appt Only) |
Asthma and COPD are reviewed by the GPs and nurses during their normal surgery hours. Patients will be sent a yearly invitation asking them to attend a review of their symptoms and medication.
Patients will be sent a letter of invitation and are asked to book a review appointment with a GP.
Dr Lechi does minor surgery. He is only able to perform minor surgery as outlined in the new Effective Commissioning Guidelines. Other procedures such as joint injections and cryotherapy for warts and verrucae are also carried out. You will need to see one of the doctors first, before making an appointment with Dr Lechi.
Bedford Hill Family Practice has an in-house smoking cessation counsellor who can give advise, issue medication and provide support if you have given up, or are thinking about giving up smoking. Please make an appointment by contacting reception.
Bedford Hill Family Practice
Monday to Friday from 8:30am - 12:30pm. No appointment is necessary. Please note that this is a walk-in clinic and waiting times vary depending on patient numbers. The service is NOT for children under 16, who should go to St George's Hospital. Our busiest period is between 8.30am to 10.30am and on Tuesdays.
St George’s Hospital - Tooting Broadway
Monday to Friday from 8:00am - 4:45pm in Lanesborough Wing. No appointment is necessary.
Saturday 9:00am - 11:45am
St John's Therapy Centre - 162 St John's Hill, SW11 1SW (Adults Only)
Monday to Thursday from 8:00am - 1.00pm. No appointment is necessary.
Friday from 8:00am - 1.00pm. No appointment is necessary.
If you have been asked to go FASTING, you need to attend in the morning, having had nothing to eat from midnight the night before. You may have a drink of water on the morning of the blood test, but not tea, coffee, fruit juice etc.