• Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Bridge Medical

Shiremoor Resource Centre, Earsdon Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE27 0HJ. Tel: 0191 253 25 78

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Services
    • The Team
      • Clinical Team
      • Management
      • Administration team
    • Opening Hours
    • Training Practice
    • Named Accountable GP
  • Appointments
    • Face-to-Face Appointments
    • Home Visits
    • Telephone Consultations
    • Group Consultations
    • eConsults
    • Navigator
    • Shared Decision Making
  • Prescriptions
  • Patient Information
    • Private Work
    • Sickness Certificates
    • Complaints Procedure
    • Friends and Family Survey
    • Feedback
    • Patient Survey
    • Patient Participation Group
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
    • Out Of Hours
    • Zero Tolerance Policy
    • Carers Policy
    • Privacy Statement for Patients 2022
    • Patient Data Sharing Programme
    • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Self Help
    • Alcohol Support
    • Diabetes
    • Exercise
    • Healthy Weight
    • Living Well North Tyneside
    • Mental Wellbeing and Domestic Abuse
    • Minor Illnesses
    • Opioids and Painkillers
    • Quit Smoking
    • Sexual Health
    • Sleep & Tiredness
    • Stress, Anxiety and Depression
  • News
  • Online Services
  • Coronavirus
    • Supporting your recovery after COVID-19

Services

NHS Health Checks

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 new NHS Health Check is for adults in England between the ages of 40 and 74. Please contact our reception team to make an appointment with a member of our nursing team.

Diabetes

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.

Long Term Conditions

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.

Cervical Smears

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 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.
  • 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

Interpreting service

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

Immunisations

The current immunisation schedule in the UK is:

2 months:

  • Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib, a bacterial infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis in young children) given as a 5-in-1 single jab known as DTaP/IPV/Hib
  • Pneumococcal infection
  • Rotavirus (oral vaccine)
  • Meningitis Group B (MenB)

3 months:

  • 5-in-1, second dose (DTaP/IPV/Hib)
  • Meningitis Group C (MenC)
  • Rotavirus (oral vaccine)

4 months:

  • 5-in-1, third dose (DTaP/IPV/Hib)
  • Pneumococcal infection, second dose
  • Meningitis Group B

Between 12 and 13 months:

  • Meningitis C, second dose
  • Hib, fourth dose (Hib/MenC given as a single jab)
  • MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), given as a single jab
  • Pneumococcal infection, third dose
  • Meningitis Group B

3 years and 4 months, or soon after:

  • MMR second jab
  • Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio (DtaP/IPV), given as a 4-in-1 pre-school booster

Around 12-13 years:

  • Cervical cancer (HPV) vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer (girls only): three jabs given within six months

Around 13-18 years:

  • Diphtheria, tetanus and polio booster (Td/IPV), given as a single jab
  • Meningitis C (third dose)

Ante-natal clinic

The practice runs a weekly ante-natal clinic on a Wednesday morning. Our Midwife is called Caroline Huxley. The clinic is for pre-booked appointments only.

Contraceptive advice

For first time advice for contraceptive needs please arrange to see one of the doctors during surgery times.

Follow-up contraceptive advice and treatment is carried out by our practice nursing staff. Bridge Medical undertakes implant insertions and removals. Please contact our Reception team if you require any further information.

Alternatively, you may wish to contact the One to One Centre where you can self-refer for contraceptive and sexual health advice. One to One Centre

Termination

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. Tel No: 0191 203 12 42, the line is open Mon-Fri 8am – 6pm.

Minor Surgery and Injections

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

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

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 at Bridge Medical 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.

Travel Advice

Unfortunately we are unable to offer Travel Advice Appointments currently. Offering Travel Advice is a specialised area of medicine and at the moment none of our clinicians have up to date expertise in this area. Monkseaton Bridge Medical would not wish to give incorrect advice resulting in our patients coming to harm.

We understand that this may result in inconvenience for some patients and we are sorry about this.

Patients are therefore advised to seek travel advice privately and this is available at some local pharmacies and travel advice centres.

Should the private travel clinic recommend that you need any of the following vaccines for travel, we can provide these vaccinations to you free of charge as part of our NHS service: Hepatitis A Vaccine, Typhoid Vaccine, Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio vaccine, Cholera Vaccine Oral Suspension and Granules.

In order for us to arrange this, you would need to bring the written copy of the travel advice recommendations from the clinic when you attend the surgery.

You can also check out the following websites for up to date information:

www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk

www.masta-travel-health.com

Patient Transport

Patients will no longer arrange transport through their GP surgery. Please contact ESR Medical to book your transport on 0191 6500560.

Primary Sidebar

Online Consultations

Only some medical problems are suitable for an eConsult. If you are thinking of contacting your GP surgery this way please check to see if your GP will be able to deal with your concerns in an eConsult.

Online Consultation

Online Consultation
Would you prefer to read this website in another language? Google Translate offers a free automated translation. Simply go to https://translate.google.com/, type in our web address into the left hand box, choose your language in the right hand box and click translate.

Opening Times

Monday: 8.00am to 6.00pm
Tuesday: 8.00am to 6.00pm
Wednesday: 8.00am to 6.00pm
Thursday: 8.00am to 6.00pm
Friday: 8.00am to 6.00pm
Saturday: Closed

View surgery closure days

Updates

Some of our normal operations have changed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Find out about these changes.

We are offering online services. This allows you to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view your medical record online.
Find out more about online services.

Access Online Services

Copyright © 2023 — Bridge Medical • All rights reserved. • Privacy Policy

Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimise our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}