Women's Services

Our team of doctors and practice nurse can advise about all aspects of women’s health from menarche to menopause;

• Period problems
• Planning a pregnancy
• Contraception (see below)
• Pregnancy care (see below)
• Menopause
• Cervical screening
• Sexually transmitted infections (STI's)

We aim to deliver a service tailored to meet your personal needs and preferences, and have a full range of patient information leaflets to supplement the information we give you.

Contraception

Contraceptive methods allow you to choose when and if you want to have a baby, but they don’t protect you from STI’s. Condoms help to protect against STI’s and pregnancy, so whatever other method of contraception you're using to prevent pregnancy, use condoms as well to protect you and your partner’s health.

All our doctors and our practice nurse are able to advise and provide a full range of family planning options, including:

• Contraceptive pills and patches
• Condoms, diaphragms and caps
• Coils or IUD’s and IUS (Mirena Coil)
• Contraceptive implants and injections, including insertions and removals
• Natural family planning
• Emergency contraception

To book an appointment, please enquire at reception.

Coils and Implants

We are able to provide a service for contraceptive coil and implant insertion and removal, but not all our GPs provide this service. Please enquire at reception for further information.

For more information about contraceptive choices, visit NHS Choices here, or Talk Choice.

We will provide you and your family with care throughout the pregnancy cycle: before the pregnancy with preconception advice, during the pregnancy with antenatal care and after the birth with post natal care and baby clinics.

If you become pregnant you will be:

• Referred to the hospital of your choice to register for shared antenatal care, which is usually shared between the community midwives and the GP surgery.
• Offered routine antenatal screening tests (click here for more information).
• Seen regularly throughout your pregnancy at the practice and by the midwives from the hospital where you have booked to have your baby.
• There are weekly GP-lead antenatal clinics at both sites on Tuesdays from 12.00am-1.00pm. For those patients booked for their care at St George’s Hospital, the Community Midwife team is the Red Team and is based at Tooting Health clinic:
  
  63 Bevill Allen Close
  Tooting
  SW17 8PX
  
  Tel: (020) 8700 0400
  
  For patients booked for delivery elsewhere, antenatal care will take place in the hospital.
  
  Eight weeks after the birth of your baby you will be invited to the GP surgery for a post natal check. This will also be the time when your baby will be due for their well baby check and first set of immunisations.