Clinics and Services

The practice runs weekly ante-natal clinics at both sites.

Monkseaton Medical Centre holds clinics on a Wednesday morning.

Bridge Medical holds clinics on a Thursday morning.

Our Midwife is called Caroline Huxley. The clinic is for pre-booked appointments only.

The NHS Screening Programme sends out reminders to all women between the age of 25 and 64 when they are due a smear. If you think you may have missed your smear or unsure when you are due one, speak to the reception team who can advise you.

When you have your reminder, speak to the receptionists who will be able to arrange your smear with the nurses in one of our weekly smear clinics.

How often should you have a smear?

Women are offered screening at different intervals, depending on their age:

• Women aged 65 or over are only screened if they have not been screened since they were 50 or have had recent abnormal test results

• Women should receive their first invitation for screening at 25

• Women aged 25-49 are invited for screening every three years

• Women aged 50-64 are invited for screening every five years.

For first time advice for contraceptive needs please arrange to see a clinician during surgery times.

Follow-up contraceptive advice and treatment is carried out by our practice nursing staff. We undertake coil removals. 
For coil fittings or implant fitting/removals patients are advised to contact the One to One Centre where you can self-refer for contraceptive and sexual health advice: One to One Centre

Our Nursing Team manages our diabetic patients. You will be asked to attend on an annual basis for your review to be done. This includes a blood test and a foot check, once the blood results are back you will be invited to see the team again for a review and a management plan.

The current immunisation schedule in the UK is can be found here. We run weekly clinics for any children due their routine immunisations. You will automatically receive an appointment for these.

This service is available on request providing several days notice is given to our Reception team.

Our Nursing Team manages our Long Term Conditions (LTC). You will be asked to attend on an annual basis for your review to be done.

A variety of skin ‘lumps and bumps’ can be removed here at the surgeries, without the need for a hospital referral. These include:

• troublesome skin tags
• warty lumps
• certain moles and cysts

Dr Bastain and Dr Hartley perform in-house minor surgery (under local anaesthetic) in dedicated 30 minute appointments, alongside a member of the nursing team.

If you wish to discuss having a minor surgical procedure, please make a routine appointment with any doctor at the surgery. They will assess you, and if your problem can be resolved with a minor operation here, an appointment for this will be made for you.

Sometimes we may recommend a referral to a specialist rather than doing minor surgery here at the practice, if it is in your best interests.

Everyone is at risk of developing heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes or kidney disease, but these diseases can often be prevented. NHS Health Checks will assess a persons risk and give personalised advice on how to reduce this. The NHS Health Check is for adults in England between the ages of 40 and 74. Find out more here.

Please contact our reception team to make an appointment with a member of our nursing team.

Patients will no longer arrange transport through their GP surgery. Please contact ESR Medical to book your transport on 0191 6500 560.

There is now a dedicated appointment line where your call will be answered confidentially by an experienced member of staff. They will book you an outpatient appointment where you can be seen within 48 hours. 0191 203 1242. The line is open Mon-Fri 8am – 6pm.

Visit our dedicated travel page to find out more.