Health and wellbeing

Services we offer

The Student Medical Centre offers a variety of services that can help you with health related issues, including;

General medical care
Family planning (including routine and emergency contraception)
Sport medicals
Travel advice
Immunisations - inc. meningitis
Treatment of sports injuries
Asthma clinic
Cervical smears within the national programme
Removal of sutures
First aid/dressings
BUNAC medicals
Diabetic checks.

The following services are offered by the Talbot Medical Centre:

Yellow fever vaccinations
Wart/verruca freezing sessions
Minor surgery
COPD clinic
Phlebotomy.

Continuity

If you have an ongoing problem, it is advisable to book to see the same doctor for review (unless there is an emergency). In this way, you can work as a team with the doctor and formulate a plan for your management. The reception staff will not automatically know whom you saw, so we rely on your help with the continuity of your care.

Full details of all the services provided at Talbot Medical Centre are available in the Practice leaflet. Copies of this are available from the reception desks at TMC or Bournemouth University Student Medical Centre.

Contraceptive advice and sexual health

All staff are Family Planning trained and can offer a range of contraceptive services and advice. Please try and plan your contraception, but in case of emergency, we can prescribe the “Morning After” Pill, which needs to be taken within 72 hours of sexual intercourse. Please contact the Surgery at the next available opening time for an emergency appointment with the nurse.

Please make an appointment with the doctor to initiate contraception for the first time. Following this, if there are no problems, please make an appointment with the nurse for further checks. Please inform the receptionist of the Pill you are taking and we will be able to have your prescription waiting for you.

In addition to the contraceptive services above, there is an integrated sexual health clinic on Tuesdays from 10.15am-2.30pm offering extended services including STI screening, emergency contraception, pregnancy testing and condoms.

Travel Vaccinations

Our Nurses are up to date and well informed on this subject. Please make an appointment with the nurse 3-4 months prior to travel where possible and complete a travel questionnaire to ensure that your full immunization programme can be completed before you leave the country, otherwise you may not be fully protected.

Talbot Medical Centre is an authorised Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre.

Information about countries and vaccinations required can be found on the links below:

It is important to make the initial appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please print out the travel questionnaire, letter and tick list, complete and return to the practice before coming to see the nurse.

Sign Up For Our Patient Group

We would like to know how we can improve our service to you and how you perceive our surgery and staff.

To help us with this, we are setting up a virtual patient representation group so that you can have your say. We will ask the members of this representative group to assist us with a questionnaire from time to time, such as what you think about our opening times or the quality of the care or service you received. We will contact you via email and keep our surveys succinct so it shouldn't take too much of your time.

We aim to gather around as broad a spectrum as possible to get a truly representative sample. We need young people to help us improve the service we offer to the students at the University Medical Centre.

If you are happy for us to contact you occasionally by email please download the sign-up form, complete all the fields and email back to the Medical Centre. If you prefer, you can print it out, complete it and return it to the practice.

We will be in touch in due course. Please note that no medical information or questions will be responded to.

Find out more about us

Medical Centre leaflet
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