and welcome to the Caddington Surgery web site
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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:
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provide all our patients with the
best possible care,
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give advice and information to
help our patients to keep healthy, and
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treat all our patients with courtesy
and understanding.
 We
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
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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.
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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
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Are you hard of hearing?
 The
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.
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Repeat Prescriptions
Why not try our "Request Repeat Prescriptions by E-mail" service? It
seems to be increasingly popular with our patients.
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