All Services
Alcohol and Drug Counselling
Inspire Alcohol and Drug Counselling is provided by Inspire in one to one sessions. Inspire Integrated Substance Misuse Service offer a wide range of support for anyone worried about their…
Ante-natal Clinic and Post-natal Care
Ante-natal care is provided through a shared care system between your community midwives and your hospital obstetric team. Much of your routine ante-natal care is likely to take place here…
Cervical Smears
Patients will be contacted by NHS England when their smears test is due. Patients should then contact the surgery to make an appointment with a Practice Nurse. Patients should bear…
Child Development Clinic
Whitworth Medical Centre is a recognised provider of child health surveillance. The national child health surveillance program is provided by your Health Visitors and GPs. Child Health Surveillance clinics run…
Childhood Immunisation Clinic
Our medical staff provide the national child immunisation vaccination program. Clinics for this run on Mondays between 1pm and 5pm. Sister Christina Russell is our childhood vaccination clinical lead. In…
Circulation (Peripheral Vascular Disease) Clinic
All of our nurses and doctors have been trained and keep up to date with management of peripheral vascular disease (blocked circulation) and longer term secondary prevention. We run a…
Counselling
Lancashire Care provides mental health assessments and counselling services for people with mild to moderate depression or anxiety who would benefit from brief psychological therapy via Minds Matter. Self referrals can…
Cryotherapy Clinic
Dr. Rasheed provides a cryotherapy service (freezing with liquid nitrogen), for minor benign skin lesions such as warts and verrucae. To access this service please arrange to see Dr Rasheed…
Diabetes Clinic
All of our nurses and doctors have been trained and keep up to date with management of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. We run a structured diabetes management…
Family Panning, Coil fitting, Contraceptive Implants and Sexual Health
All of our nurses and doctors have been trained and keep up to date with contraception and sexual health issues. An appointment can be made to discuss any form of…
Healthy Heart Clinic (Well Person Clinic)
All of our Healthcare Assistant, Practice Nurses and Doctors have all been trained and keep up to date with prevention of ischaemic heart disease and stroke. Our Healthcare Assistant runs…
Heart Disease Clinic
All of our nurses and doctors have been trained and keep up to date with management of ischaemic heart disease and heart failure. Our Practice Nurse, Sister Christina Russell specialises…
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Clinic
All of our nurses and doctors keep up to date with management of hypertension. We run a structured hypertension management service for routine monitoring. This can be provided through regular…
Investigations
Our Healthcare assistants run an appointment based clinic at the surgery each morning to perform investigations ordered by your GP or nurse. They are responsible for taking blood samples, performing…
Medication Monitoring Clinic (Near Patient Testing)
Some medications require very specific blood monitoring on a regular basis. Nurse Tracey Shaw runs a structured near patient testing clinic for Whitworth Medical Centre’s patients who take the following…
Minor Eye Conditions Service
MINOR EYE CONDITIONS SERVICE The following conditions are seen under the MECS; Watery eyes In-growing lashes (trichiasis) – feels like they have something in their eye Superficial foreign bodies Inflammation of the…
Non-NHS Services
There are a number of common requests made of the practice that are not a part of our NHS service to you. Examples of this are requests for private sick…
Physiotherapy Clinic
Whitworth Medical Centre is provided with two sessions of physiotherapy per week at the surgery by Rochdale Infirmary’s physiotherapy department – appointments are organised by the physiotherapy department at the…
Respiratory Clinic (Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
All of our nurses and doctors have been trained and keep up to date with management of airways diseases such as asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (also often referred…
Smoking Cessation
We have regular smoking cessation clinics at the surgery on Thursday afternoons. Appropriate medications can be arranged and monitored through these one-to-one clinics. There are several other local smoking cessation…
Stroke Clinic
All of our nurses and doctors have been trained and keep up to date with the management of strokes and the long term secondary prevention needs of patients who have…
Termination of Pregnancy/ Unwanted pregnancy
East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals offer a direct access service to patients with unwanted pregnancies. There is no need to see your GP . To arrange a fast, convenient, free appointment for…
Travel Advice and Vaccination Clinic
Travel Vaccination Whilst travel vaccination is not a core NHS facility, at Whitworth Medical Centre we have elected to provide our services free of charge. Some of the non-standard vaccinations…
Well Person Clinics
We run a Health Heart Clinic. This is a well person clinic aimed at assessing individual risk of developing vascular disease such as heart disease, stroke and artery occlusion and…