Services to Patients

The practice has a contract with NHS England and NHS Kernow CCG to provide general medical services and the following additional services

• Flu vaccines
• Minor surgery
• Monitoring of patients on Warfarin medication
• Monitoring and referral of patients where necessary
• Monitoring of mothers and babies who leave hospital within 24 hours of birth
• 24 hour BP monitoring
• IUD fitting
• 24 hour ECG monitoring

 Do you have an Upcoming Spirometry Appointment?  Please read advice provided:

Getting Ready for Spirometry

Minor Surgery: by appointment only.

Antenatal Clinic :  During the current pandemic, our midwife clinics have been reloacted by the midwifery team.  Please contact reception by telephone for details of how to contact the team members.

Social Prescriber: Clinics are held every Tuesday and Thursday by our Social Prescriber, Nicky Adair.  PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL APPOINTMENTS ARE BY TELEPHONE AT THE PRESENT TIME.

Stop Smoking Service: The Practice has a trained Stop Smoking Counsellor, Michele Stubbs, who can give practical support and advice to help with giving up smoking. Contact reception for appointments which, at the current time, will be by Telephone on alternate Tuesday afternoons.

Private Fees

Some services we provide are not available under the NHS. These include medical checks for HGV drivers, mortgage applications, certain sports certificates covering fitness to travel, own a shotgun, medical certificates, passports applications, photocopies of medical records.

Some travel vaccinations are available under the NHS, others are not. Please ask for details.

All our fees are based on those suggested by the British Medical Association or local guidelines. Any fees collected are used for the benefit of the patients i.e. to purchase additional medical equipment or improve patient comfort. If you are unsure about any fees please click on the below document or ask at reception.

Private Fees and Charges

Child Vaccination Clinics are held every Wednesday Afternoon 1:45 to 15:40 by Practice Nurses.

First set of vaccinations are after your child has received a 6-8 week check. 

Please complete the below form prior to your Childs Vaccination Appointment:

Child Vaccination Consent Form

Please note:  When a relative e.g. grandparent brings a child to a vaccination appointment, they are required to bring with them a letter of consent for the vaccination to be given, from the parent/guardian who has legal responsibility for the child, before the vaccination/s can be administered.

Travel vaccinations

In view that GP’s are no longer insured to give travel vaccinations and/or give relevant travel vaccination advice, which are not listed under the Primary Care GMS contract, the partnership have elected NOT TO CONTINUE this service.

Subsequently, as per BMA Guidelines, Praze Surgery will not be giving the following vaccinations for travel:

• hep B
• Japanese encephalitis
• meningitis vaccines
• rabies,
• tick-borne encephalitis,
• TB
• yellow fever.

We will, however, provide the following vaccinations (under the primary care GMS contract), which may be helpful for any co-incidental  travel:

• Polio (Given as combined Dip/tet/polio jab)
• Typhoid
• Hep A
• Cholera

Please find the links below which will direct you to organisations outside the National Health Service which can provide you will the appropriate travel vaccinations and advice, privately.

Please visit https://www.boots.com/vaccinations/travel-vaccination-health-advice-service or https://www.masta-travel-health.com/ for more information. 

The Dressing Clinic at Camborne and Redruth Community Hospital is a nurse led service providing wound management for the North Kerrier GP population.

Please contact the CRCH reception on

01209 318000 if you are unsure if you are eligible to attend.