and welcome to the Caddington Surgery web site

  'flu injections available now.......Swine flu - advice and information........We have joined the 10:10 campaign .......Don't Cross YOUR Fingers - information on sex and relationships, how to look after yourself and where to get help locally....... See Caddington News for details... How to become a Donor ...... See Caddington Surgery News for details .....Are you Hard of Hearing? Ask about our portable T-loop to help hearing aid wearers......Caddington Surgey in National Screening Programme for Chlamydia

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Welcome to the Caddington Surgery Web Site.  The Surgery is located in the Bedfordshire village of Caddington and serves the people of Caddington, Slip End, Woodside and Pepperstock. We aim to:

  • provide all our patients with the best possible care,

  • give advice and information to help our patients to keep healthy, and

  • treat all our patients with courtesy and understanding.

Caddington Surgery NewsWe have developed this web site to provide easy access to information about the practice and the services we offer, in addition to medical information.  

News

 

For the latest information from Caddington Surgery, please click here

Flu Injections

Flu vaccines are now available at the surgery and there are two Saturday mornings sessions that we are booking at the moment - 10th and 17th October - if you would like to make an appointment.
Thank you
 

Swine 'Flu

Swine flu, or influenza A (H1N1), has arrived in the UK.  There is a lot of information available (click here for more details)

We have joined the 10:10 Campaign

Caddington Surgery has joined the 10:10 campaign!
This means that we are committed to trying to reduce our carbon footprint by 10% in 2010. For example, we are turning the heating down a little.
Please will you help us?
Whenever possible, come to the surgery on foot, by bicycle, or on public transport, and leave your car at home. This will benefit
your health, your pocket, and the planet.
Thank you.

Early Appointments

Just a quick reminder that we are already open EARLY.  There are 8.15a.m. appointments slots on a Tuesday, Thursday and Friday to see a GP and 8.30a.m. on a Wednesday. Patients ARRIVING at 8.15a.m. at the surgery will be offered one of these early appointments slots which are 10 minutes apart.  The telephone lines are open from 8.30a.m. and appointments booked.

You can book an appointment to see a Dunstable Citizens Advice Bureau adviser here in Caddington Surgery. This service is available via an appointment only, every other Friday morning. Please ask at reception to book an appointment.


Citizens Advice provides free, independent, impartial and confidential advice on may issues including benefits, employment, debt, housing and legal issues.  (Priority given to clients who are unable or would find it difficult to get to Dunstable CAB.)

Give up smoking

Go smoke free?  It is one of the best things you could do for your health. Making a complete break from smoking. Think about how great it would be to leave those health worries behind you. Picture yourself, waking up and feeling totally fresh. Millions of people in Britain have already gone smoke free and you can too. Click here for more information or contact the surgery.

 

Lose weight

There are lots of groups to join, books to read and so on for diets.  But for simple tips on weight loss (that work!), click here.  And for an outline of a low fat diet, click here.  Why not use the BMI calculator to find out if you're the right weight for your height ?  Click here for BMI Calculator

 

Are you hard of hearing?

T-Loop symbolThe surgery has a portable T-loop to help hearing aid wearers. To make use of this please switch your hearing aid on to T when you speak to the receptionist and ask that the loop be used in your consultation when you check in. The T-loop can also be taken by the doctor or (district) nurse on home visits if you request this in advance. We regret that occasionally the facility will not be available if in use with another patient. 

You may also like to know that hearing aid batteries are now available from reception.

 

Repeat Prescriptions

Why not try our "Request Repeat Prescriptions by E-mail" service?  It seems to be increasingly popular with our patients.

Click here for NHS Direct

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If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this web site then please contact us at the address above.
We are not able to deal with patients' medical problems by e-mail.