Here at Seaholm Surgery we aim to provide you and your family with the best possible service and medical care.To provide a friendly, personal and effective health care.

Phlebotomy

Bloods are done Monday to Friday in the mornings from 9-12 daily, all by appointment. Your Doctor will order whatever blood test you need, please note a doctors consultation is required prior to or after bloods. Your results will be available in two weeks from the sample date, please phone the surgery and we will guide you on the next step regarding results. In some cases a doctor will deem it necessary to have a consultation with you regarding your results, this is normally chargeable at 35 euros, important to say not financially motivated but with continuity of care paramount.

FASTING RULE: It is necessary to fast from 12 the night before for full-bloods, you can have water up until the test.

Well-woman services

All well-woman services by appointment.

• Cervical smears: please refer to our patient information leaflet

• Family planning - we offer a full range of services including fitting of Mirena and Implanon.

• Gynaecology - Including fitting vaginal ring pessaries

• Infections testing - sexual infection - (nurses screen women only)

• Menopause: screening advice and treatment including HRT

• Osteoporosis - preventative care, treatment of osteoporosis and referral for Dexa scan.

• Breast examination and instruction on self-examination, referral if necessary and aftercare if appropriate. See Patient Information Leaflet

• Seaholm Surgery are delighted to be registered practitioners for the Free Contraceptive Scheme for 17/25 year olds launched on September 14th 2022.

  All women in that category, up to the day before their 26th birthday, who are resident in the state and have a PPSN can avail of the scheme.

  The scheme covers consultations, procedures and follow up for all contraceptives, including pills, rings, coils and injection.  

   

Maternity Services

We provide Combined Mother & Infant, antenatal (before birth) and postnatal (after birth) care under the combined care scheme with the hospital.

This service is available by completing an M&I application form with your Doctor and we submit it for approval (please note PPS number must be provided on this form in order to be covered for this service).

This service is available to all mothers with a valid PPS number.

The service covers 6 antenatal care consultations and a postnatal consultation for Mum and Baby at two weeks and a six-week developmental check for children registered with this practice.

Infant care services include growth monitoring and feeding advice.

Men’s health

Full health screening available by appointment:

• Blood pressure monitoring and heart screening

• Cholesterol screening

• Prostate health check

• Lifestyle advise

• Smoking cessation

• ECG: electrocardiogram

• Sexual health and infection testing - STD checks

• Impotence advice and treatment

Cervical check

The Practice Nurses Maria and Emer run the cervical screening programme. You can choose to have a free cervical screening with one of our nurses if you are aged 25 to 65. You should have a cervical screening test (formerly smear test) when it is due.

The best time to have your test done is when you are not actively bleeding if you have a cycle.

Check your eligibility on Cervicalcheck, HSE.ie

Childhood immunisation

Getting our children immunised is essential for their wellness and that of their friends. It can be a difficult decision sometimes but the effects of not being immunised can be devastating to oneself and also to our community. Please speak to any of the doctors if you have any doubts as to what is best. Immunisation is a simple, safe and effective way of protecting your child against certain diseases. The risks from having these diseases are far greater than the risk of any minor side effects from immunisation.

Asthma services

Asthma is an ongoing disease of the airways characterised by cough, wheeze, shortage of breath or chest tightness. With treatment, someone with asthma should be able to carry out activities as comfortably as those who do not have asthma.

At the review the doctor will check your symptoms, peak flow reading, inhaler requirements, and your technique in taking your inhaled drugs (so do remember to bring along all the inhalers and spacers you currently use to your appointment!). You may also wish to discuss any asthma-related concerns you have at this time.

In addition, the doctors positively encourage patients to arrange an appointment should they have any concerns about their asthma at other times of the year, and after any emergency hospital visits. We hope however that these will be very few.

With asthma under control, the idea is for it to fit in with your life and not your life to fit around your asthma.

Travel vaccinations

Seaholm Doctor's Surgery offers a comprehensive travel health service for patients. Whether you have been planning your trip for a while or succeed in finding a late bargain, make time for seeking travel health advice before you go. You may require various vaccinations and malaria medication.

The Surgery is yellow fever certified travel vaccine and health centre. This is a comprehensive health service and is provided by both Doctors and Nurses. When booking your appointment it is essential to inform reception which countries you are planning to visit, which will allow us time to prepare the most up - to date health and vaccine information for you. Any expense incurred is not covered under the GMS programme and must be paid on the day of the appointment, due to the expense of travel vaccines.

If you are uncertain whether you need to have a course of vaccinations or would like advice, call our reception on 01 8491 497 to arrange an appointment with one of the doctors.

Pre-Employment Examination

Pre-Employment Examination can be tailored to suit a Company’s needs. Components can include;

• Medical History

• Height, Weight and Blood sugar

• Vision, Screening Hearing and Lung Function test

• Cardio-respiratory assessment

• Musculoskeletal Assessment

• Urinalysis (Dipstick)

• Urine Drug Screening

Sports medicine

We are well placed in the centre of Skerries to offer a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis, management and treatment of Sports and Occupational injuries.

Sports medicine centers on the injuries associated with playing sports and exercising. The risk of injury in sport can be great due to the amount of strenuous activity involved, putting pressure on joints and muscles that are not generally strained as much in everyday use.

Of course, the rewards for such exercise are many, and in addition to explaining the effects of different diseases and conditions, we also seek to deliver advice on participating in sports healthily and avoiding injury. As an extensive resource in the area we offer diagnostic descriptions of numerous conditions related to various parts of the body, and also supply a large selection of information on rehabilitation and prevention.

Minor surgery

Our doctors are skilled in minor surgery and joint injections. They can perform excisions of minor skin lesions such as moles, sebaceous cysts and some lipomas. Also they give steroid injections into shoulders, elbows & knees to help with arthritis and tendonitis.

Our doctors may be able to perform some minor surgery procedures within the practice, and if you wish to discuss the possibility of getting a minor surgical procedure done, you should make an appointment with your usual GP. This initial assessment is necessary to discuss the availability of various procedures, and to decide on the best course of action.

If, after your initial GP consultation, it has been agreed that minor surgery at the practice is the best way forward, you will be given an appointment when the surgery will take place in one of the practice treatment rooms.

Before any surgery is done, you will be asked to sign a consent form confirming that the nature and possible complications of the procedure have been fully explained to you.

After the procedure, the doctor will go through any aftercare instructions with you, and you will be given an appointment to return in a few days to remove any stitches or check any wounds.

The procedures we are able to do include:

• Freezing and removal of warts (not genital warts).

• Removal of small skin "lumps and bumps", e.g. moles, skin tags and cysts.

• Injection of joints, e.g. steroid injections for arthritis.

• Draining of excess fluid, e.g. from joints and cysts.

• Nasal cautery, to stop frequent nose bleeds.

• Please note some of these procedures can be covered by Private Health Insurance, consultation fee chargeable. If you do not have Private insurance please contact us to discuss additional charge associated with procedure.

Chronic Disease Management

Seaholm Surgery participate in the HSE programme, Chronic Disease Management.

Any patient aged 18 years and over with a General Medical Card/ Doctors Visit Card and one or more of the following conditions are eligible to participate in the programme.

Type 2 Diabetes

A Fib

COPD

Asthma

Heart Failure

IHD

Tia/Stroke

Please contact the surgery on 018491497 for more details or to make an appointment