Clinics & Services

We hold a number of clinics for both preventing disease and for reducing harm from existing conditions:

• Adult Immunisations – including Flu, Tetanus, Polio, Pneumonia and Hepatitis B
• Antenatal Clinic - our maternity clinic is held every alternate Wednesday morning by the midwife. If you need to make an unscheduled visit to the midwife, please phone her first on 07887 636 748.
• Asthma and COPD Checks - our practice nurse Fiona has had special training in the care of people with asthma, and will be happy to see you. We recommend that all our patients with asthma/COPD have a special check for their asthma/COPD at least once a year.
• Child Immunisations - We encourage all children and young people to complete a full course of immunisation. Clinics are held on Tuesday afternoons from 2-2:30 pm.
• Coronary Heart Disease Clinic - our nurse Lorraine has been specially trained to help you keep well. During this clinic she will ask about your symptoms, and your lifestyle. She will check your weight and blood pressure and review the results of your recent blood tests.  She can then use this information to advise you on how best you can keep healthy. She may adjust your medication.
• Contraception - We don't hold a special clinic for contraception; just make an appointment during ordinary surgery time. You can see one of our two family planning trained nurses, Rosie or Fiona, or one of the doctors.
• Diabetic clinic - Rosie Maxey is our practice nurse with a special interest in the care of diabetic people. She will have arranged for you to have some special blood tests at the hospital, before the clinic, to monitor your kidney function and to estimate how well your diabetes is controlled.
• Help for smokers - If you are thinking about stopping, why not make an appointment to see nurse Lorraine who has had special training to help you stop
• High Blood Pressure Clinic (Hypertension) - Nurse Fiona runs a clinic on Monday mornings and Wednesday afternoons when she sees people with high blood pressure.
• Minor surgery - we are able to perform a number of minor operations in our special minor surgery theatre such as the removal of small cysts and other benign lumps, injecting joints and removing in-growing toenails. Many of these are performed using a local anaesthetic. Treatment follows an initial assessment by your GP.
• Psychological Treatments - a psychologist visits our surgery as part of the IAPT programme. If you think this treatment could help you, speak to any of us at the surgery and we can refer you to her.
• S-Tox Clinic - Dr Acorn runs a private cosmetic clinic for anti-wrinkle and complexion treatments. Leaflet available at reception or click here for further information.
• Travel Advice - make an appointment to see our nurses as soon as you have booked your holiday, to find out what immunisations, if any you will need. She will also advise you on protection against malaria and other infections for which there are no immunisations. Further information is available on the above tab.
• Vasectomy Clinic - here at Stock Surgery we have a highly specified operating theatre. It is the perfect environment for all forms of operation where local anaesthetic is used, including non-scalpel vasectomy.

Travel Vaccinations

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need complete the travel questionnaire below and then make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.

It is important to make this 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.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

Travel Health Questionnaire

Please complete the travel questionnaire throughly (it is very important to state whether you are staying in a hotel or backpacking etc) for each member of family travelling and bring it along to the Surgery to book an appointment with the nurse

Travel Questionnaire  

There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Caribbean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

Travelling in Europe

If you are travelling to Europe a very useful booklet has been published with advice and guidance to help you get the most out of your holiday. To visit please click:- http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/eu_glance/86/en.pdf (this is a large document and may take a minute or two to view)

Non-NHS Services

Some services provided are not covered under our contract with the NHS and therefore attract charges. Examples include the following:

• Medicals for pre-employment, sports and driving requirements (HGV, PSV etc.)
• Insurance claim forms
• Passport signing
• Prescriptions for taking medication abroad
• Private sick notes
• Vaccination certificates
  
• cosmetic treatments
• vasectomies

Dr Acorn performs private medical examinations on Thursday mornings from 11:30. The fees charged are based on the British Medical Association (BMA) suggested scales and our reception staff will be happy to advise you about them along with appointment availability. 

Book your No Scalpel Vasectomy (NSV) at Stock Surgery where you will experience the clean, safe, high-tech hospital environment of our operating facility, but with the friendly, comfortable ambience of a village GP surgery. We offer professional expertise with a friendly holistic approach, ensuring that our vasectomy patients will feel confident and at ease to have a really good experience.

Here at Stock surgery we have a highly specified operating theatre. It is the perfect environment for all forms of operation where local anaesthetic is used, including no scalpel vasectomy. We have provided community surgical services with expert advice and support since 2008 and Dr Acorn has performed thousands of vasectomies during that time.

We are located near to Chelmsford, Billericay and Brentwood.

The non-scalpel procedure is the most up to date technique for best possible outcomes. It is the procedure of choice because it has been shown to have a lower failure rate AND a lower incidence of operative complications when compared to more traditional methods. NSV is the procedure you will have when you have your vasectomy with Dr Acorn at Stock Surgery.

NSV differs from traditional vasectomy in the following ways.

• A hyfrecator (sophisticated electrical cutting device) is used to cut and to cauterise during the procedure.
• A single small incision in the midline of the scrotum is made instead of two larger incisions, one each side.
• The tubes are cut and cauterised instead of being tied.
• The small incision doesn’t require stitches.
• Special instruments have been designed just for this procedure.
• The NSV is relatively quick and minimally invasive

You will not feel any discomfort during your vasectomy as we use a micro-fine 31 gauge to instil the rapid-acting local anaesthetic. And you can feel completely at ease welcomed by our friendly, professional staff and in the hands of a highly qualified vasectomy surgeon (Dr Acorn) with many years experience. There are excellent road links via M25 and A12 from surrounding areas and we have a large free carpark.

If you think vasectomy is the contraceptive for you, make sure you get a no scalpel vasectomy. Unfortunately vasectomy procedures are now no longer available as an NHS treatment in Mid-Essex, but we are able to offer patient funded NSV at an affordable price here at Stock Surgery. The total cost including semen analysis is £275; you will not find a better service nor better value!

Please make sure you read and comprehend the No Scalpel Vasectomy information sheet thoroughly, before you make a decision – vasectomy is a permanent contraceptive. Please click on the following links to download further information about the operation. They are all in PDF format:

No Scalpel Vasectomy Information Sheet

Vasectomy Consent Form

After the Operation

Copy of leaflet you may have received from your GP

how to book you appointment...

You do not need a GP referral, but you will need to have a phone consultation with Dr Acorn to check for any health issues and to make sure you are aware of all the considerations required for making a fully informed decision in asking for permanent contraception. To complete the booking it is really helpful if you can have decided on a preferred date for your operation (operating is on a Monday afternoon). The waiting list is usually 2 weeks.

Please email your phone number to essexvasectomy@gmail.com or text 07932 006400 to ask for a phone consultation and Dr Acorn will call you back.

a few recent testimonials:

Mr W, Waltham Abbey "Dr Acorn and his staff were absolutely fantastic and made the whole experience easy to overcome"

Mr W, Chelmsford "Dr A was excellent, put me at ease"

Mr P, Stock "I was put immediately very much at ease and felt comfortable and well taken care of throughout"

Mr H, Benfleet "Very professional, felt comfortable and relaxed"

Mr S, Sidcup "Very straight forward and professional experience. A calm environment with excellent staff. I hardly knew what was happening!"

Mr C, Braintree "As painless and uncomplicated as you could wish for. Friendly and professional"

Mr H, Westcliff-on-Sea "Dr Acorn and his assistant nurse very very nice and really helped create a relaxed environment during the whole process"

Stock Cares 

Exists to provide transport to attend medical appointments ~ for Stock residents, who do not have family or friends to assist them at the appropriate date and time Monday to Friday between 9.00 am and 5.00 pm.

For assistance please phone one of our coordinators, in order to book a driver:-

Maureen Gaze 01277 840763

Ann Hunt 01277 840945

Linda Ramsey 01277 417635

Daphne Spencer 01277 829750

2017/18 Seasonal Flu Vaccinations

We are now taking bookings for flu vaccinations. Call reception to book and check eligibility. 

GROUPS CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE FOR THE FLU VACCINATION ARE:

·         Patients aged 65 years and over

·         Patients with heart, kidney, liver, spleen or neurological disease

·         Patients with diabetes

·         Patients with asthma (on inhaled steroids)

·         Patients with COPD

·         Immunocompromised patients

·         Pregnant women

·         Patients in long-stay residential homes

·         Carers

2017/18 Childhood Nasal Flu Immunisation

Children aged two, three or four who were born between 01/09/2012 and 31/08/2015 (but not aged less than two, or aged five or over, at the time the vaccine is given).

2017/18 Shingles Vaccinations

S-Tox clinic is an aesthetics clinic run by Dr Acorn and provides

treatments for rejuvenation of your skin. We offer a wide range of

treatments to help skin contour and also skin appearance and

complexion. 

For further information please click on link below or call Dr

Acorn on 07932 006400

www.stoxclinic.co.uk

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