The NHS does not pay for some of our services.
For example:
private sick notes
insurance forms
holiday cancellation forms
medical reports
fitness to travel certificates
private prescriptions
passport signing
some vaccination services
You can find our fees for these services in the surgery.
Private Prescriptions
A GP in the surgery can only provide a private prescription if the medication is not available on the NHS.
A private prescription is not written on an official NHS prescription and so is not paid for by the NHS. A prescription is a legal document for which the doctor, who has issued and signed it, is responsible. A doctor you see privately is unable to issue an NHS prescription.
The cost of a private prescription is met wholly by the patient and is dictated by the cost of the medicine plus the pharmacists charge for supplying it. Our fee for issuing patients with a private prescription is £15.