Child Health
 Your doctor will be happy to provide advice on any aspect of child health - simply make a routine surgery appointment.
The immunization clinic is on Monday afternoon at 1.30pm and the childhood surveillance clinic starts from 1pm on Monday afternoon by appointment please.
Many parents' first port of call is often the health visitor, a community nurse who is specially trained in child health.
Please contact the health visitor on 01922 858846.
Child health surveillance examinations
We provide a full child health surveillance service working alongside the local health visitors and school nurses. Routine examinations are done at eight weeks, eight months, two years and three and a half years.
Immunizations
All childhood immunizations are performed at the surgery (except for TB, which is rarely needed).
The schedule is:
| Age |
Immunisation |
How |
| 2 months |
Hib, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus |
Single injection |
| Meningitis C |
Single injection |
| Polio |
By mouth |
| 3 months |
Same as 2 months |
| 4 months |
Same as 2 months |
| 12-15 months |
MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) |
Single injection |
| Pre-school booster |
MMR |
Single injection |
| Diphtheria,tetanus and whooping cough |
Single injection |
| Polio |
By mouth |
Useful Links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/
http://www.immunisation.org.uk/
http://www.mmrthefacts.com/
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