The aim of promoting health is to try and identify risk factors at an early stage and prevent them from causing ill health. For this reason we will ask about drinking and smoking habits and measure your blood pressure and weight from time to time. This is especially wise in people with a family history of heart disease, diabetes or stroke.

We offer NHS Health Checks for patients aged 40-74 who are not on a chronic disease register.

Any of our doctors are happy to discuss your individual needs.

For new prescription of a contraceptive pill, please make a routine appointment with a GP. If you are due a pill check, please make an appointment with a nurse.

For IUCD (coil) and Nexplanons (implant), please make a routine appointment with any of our GP’s to discuss the procedure. Once you have discussed it with a GP you can then be booked in for the procedure which will be undertaken by one of the GP’s who specialises in women’s health.

Midwife appointments are held at the surgery on a Tuesday and a Friday.  Community midwives from Oxford University Hospitals cover these clinics. There are 2 community midwives attached to Brackley Medical Centre and they will give both antenatal and postnatal care to expectant mothers. Your midwife will guide you accordingly, but it is a midwives preference and recommendation that you stick to one or the other and maintain consistency with your midwife.

Doctors look after their own maternity patients with the midwife and/or consultant. Women can choose where they give birth. Patients may deliver at home or at any of the various local hospitals.

If you urgently need to contact the midwife, please call the Day Assessment Unit on 01295 229779.

You will need a routine GP appointment when you are between 5-8 weeks pregnant so that any current medication you are on can be discussed and adjusted accordingly. You will then need to book your first midwife appointment for when you are between 8-11 weeks pregnant. This initial appointment with the midwife is approximately 80 minutes long.