Surgery Clinics

We offer a range of clinics and services at the surgery.

Chronic disease management

  • Asthma and COPD
  • Heart failure
  • Diabetes – clinics are are run by the practice diabetes nurse, with input from our diabetes lead GPs.
  • Mental health and dementia care

Additional services

  • Baby clinic – this clinic is for immunisations and new baby checks.
  • Blood tests – most appointments will be with our phlebotomist.
  • Cervical smears
  • Contraceptive and sexual health (CASH) clinic – a comprehensive service is offered including emergency contraception, implant and coil fitting and removal.
  • Maternity services – postnatal checks are by appointment with the doctor.
  • Minor surgery – injections and removal of lesions
  • NHS Health Checks
  • Smoking cessation
  • Weight management
  • Vaccinations and immunisations – including flu and travel

Travel vaccinations

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to complete a Travel Risk Assessment and make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements.

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 may have to be ordered as they may not be 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.

Wellbeing

Local and national help and advice for you to get the support you need for your wellbeing.

Carers

Carers UK

They’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.


Birmingham Carers Hub

Forward Carers is an award winning social enterprise that prides itself on making a real difference to the lives of carers through working in partnership.


Spurgeons Young Carers

They support children and young people who care for a family member with an illness or disability.


Contact

Information and advice for families who care for children with a disability or special need.

Child health

Rashes in babies and children

Many things can cause a rash in babies and children, and they’re often nothing to worry about.

The NHS provide support for identifying some of the common rashes in babies and children.


NHS vaccinations and when to have them

It’s important that vaccines are given on time for the best protection. Check the dates your child needs to have their vaccinations by and contact your GP.


Start for Life

Trusted NHS help and advice during pregnancy, birth and parenthood.


Birmingham Community Paediatrics/Medicine

Community Paediatricians are doctors experienced in child health who offer high quality services centred on the child and family, city wide for Birmingham. These medical services are provided for both pre-school and school age children and their families and carers.

Drugs and alcohol

Drinkaware

Digital tools to help you assess, track and set goals to reduce your drinking.


Drinkline

If you’re worried about your own or someone else’s drinking, you can call this free helpline, in complete confidence.


Talk to Frank

If you have a problem with drugs, you can Talk to Frank for friendly, confidential drugs advice.


NHS Drink Free Days

Drink Free Days is for people who like a drink but want some support in tracking and cutting down on the booze as well as better understanding the risks.


Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.


Change Grow Live Birmingham

Reach Out Recovery is a free and confidential drug and alcohol service for adults and affected others in Birmingham.

Elderly care

Age UK

Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. They believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.


Dementia UK

Dementia UK offers specialist one to one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.


The Silver Line

Free phone support for older people, 24 hours a day.


Age Concern Birmingham

Age Concern Birmingham is committed to tackling the challenges faced by an ageing society. Our vision is to excel in all our endeavours to meet the needs of older people and others in need.

LGBT community

Birmingham LGBT

The Birmingham LGBT Centre hosts a wide range of independent social groups organised by LGBT people for LGBT people. So whether you’re interested in making new friends, pursuing a hobby or interest, or making your voice heard on issues that affect LGBT people, there’s a group for you.


Acting Out

A gay, lesbian and straight theatre group for both men and women. If you would like to act, help out back stage or just find out more, it’s great fun and you will be made very welcome.


Birmingham LGBT Meetup

The group was founded in early 2015 to bring together LGBT people who wanted to make new friends – and it has done just that!
We hold a monthly coffee afternoon in central Birmingham, regular nights out in the gay village, and a variety of other smaller scale meetups hosted by group members. If you want to organise an event yourself, they would love to hear from you.


Birmingham Swifts – LGBT Running Group

The Birmingham Swifts are a free, LGBT running group open to everyone no matter what your ability, age, sexuality or gender.


Birmingham LGBT Centre

Support Groups, Sexual Health Testing, Cafe, Community Groups, Events and more.

Maternity

Tommy’s

Tommy’s provides information and support to empower parents during pregnancy.


Start for Life

Trusted NHS help and advice during pregnancy, birth and parenthood.


Baby Buddy: Pregnancy & Parent

Baby Buddy is an award winning mobile phone app for new parents and parents-to-be, created by mums, doctors and midwives.


MAMA Academy

MAMA Academy’s mission is to empower all maternity professionals and expectant parents on stillbirth prevention methods to help more babies arrive safely.


NHS Pregnancy

This guide includes all you need to know about trying for a baby, pregnancy, labour and birth.


Bump

Bump is a new partnership bringing together Birmingham and Solihull maternity services caring for women throughout their pregnancy journey.


Acacia Family Support

Acacia offers pre and postnatal depression support services to women and their families across Birmingham.

Mental health

NHS Mental health

Find information and support for your mental health.


Kooth

Free anonymous online chat for young people to discuss their mental health issues.


Samaritans

Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.


Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems.


Mind

Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.


Birmingham Healthy Minds

Birmingham Healthy Minds is an NHS primary care psychological therapies service that works closely with Birmingham GP’s. BHM offers advice, information and brief psychological talking therapies for people aged 16 and over, who are often feeling anxious, low in mood or depressed.


Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust – Caring Minds

Caring Minds are dedicated to raising awareness of mental health and removing the stigma that’s associated with it.

Sexual health

Brook

Brook provides free and confidential sexual health and wellbeing services for nearly 250,000 young people UK-wide, each year.


Sexual Health Helpline

The National Sexual Health Helpline provided by Public Health England is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm.


Family Planning Association

A sexual health charity, the Family Planning Association gives straightforward information and support on sexual health, sex and relationships to everyone in the UK.


Birmingham LGBT Centre

Support Groups, Sexual Health Testing, Cafe, Community Groups, Events and more.


Umbrella Health

Providing free and confidential sexual health services in Birmingham and Solihull, including all types of contraception and STI testing and treatment. This service is confidential, non-judgemental and for people of all ages, genders and orientations.

Stop smoking

Quit with help

Everyone has a different reason for quitting, get a personalised Quit Smoking Plan.


NHS Quit smoking

Quitting is much easier when you get the right support and there are lots of options to choose from. Check out their advice, tools and tips.


Birmingham City Council

You are four times more likely to quit smoking with a combination of stop smoking medication and behavioural support. You can get free advice, one to one support and access to a range of nicotine replacement therapies (for just the cost of a prescription).

Website
www.birmingham.gov.uk/info


Walsall Specialist Stop Smoking Service

Weight management

Slimming World

You’ll find delicious recipe and menu ideas at your local group, along with all the help you need to get started and reach your target weight.


Weight Watchers

Meetings, online or a little bit of both. They’ve got options and support, whatever your lifestyle.


Specialist Weight Management Service

This specialist service is for people who have struggled with their weight for a long period of time. We offer a more intensive approach to weight management, when other interventions have not worked.


Am I a Healthy Weight?

Calculate your BMI using this NHS Tool

Test results

Getting your test results

If your test results show that you need more tests or treatment, we will contact you.

Once a doctor has reviewed your test results, you can:

  • view them in your NHS account (through the NHS App)
  • view them in your SystmOnline account
  • get them over the phone by calling us on 0121 373 8842 between 09:30-11:30 and 13:00-17:30 to avoid busy periods

Questions about your results

If you want to discuss your results, call the surgery to make an appointment.

Sick (fit) notes

Employees can take time off work if they’re ill. They need to give their employer proof if they’re ill for more than 7 days.

If you’ve been off sick for more than 7 days

If this is your FIRST sick note then you will need to request an appointment in the usual way to discuss this with a member of our team.

If you have already been seen or discussed your sick note with us previously and would like to request an extended note:

If you’ve been off sick for less than 7 days

If you’re off work sick for 7 days or less, your employer should not ask for medical evidence that you’ve been ill. Instead, they can ask you to confirm that you’ve been ill, by filling in a form called SC2. We call this self-certification.

You can complete this form online yourself and submit it to your employer.

Fit notes and proof of sickness

Fit notes are free if the employee has been ill for more than 7 days when they ask for one. The doctor might charge a fee if they ask for the fit note earlier.

New Patient Registration

Thank you for choosing College Road Surgery.
We are please you have requested to receive your health care from us.

Before filling out a registration form, check you are in our catchment area using the boundary map below

OR

Find out which GPs you can register with on the NHS website

Please enter your postcode below to check if you live within our Practice Area. We do not register out-of-area patients.

Catchment Area

You can Register in 2 ways

  • Online
    Fill out a new patient registration form online
  • In Person
    Visit reception from and collect a paper registration form (PRF1)

Changing your Contact Details

To update details like your name, address, phone numbers or email address:

Change of address

If you have moved to a new address, you will need to be in our catchment area to stay registered with our surgery.

Enter your postcode below to check if you live within our Practice Area

Catchment Area

Changing your phone number or email address

You will need to show us identification before we can change your phone number or email address.

Changing your name

You will need to show us proof that you have changed your name. This could be a marriage or civil partnership certificate, deed poll or birth certificate.

Application for Online Access to GP Services

Application for Online Access to GP Services

Before you apply for online access to your medical record, there are some other things to consider.

Although the chances of any of these things happening are very small, you are asked that you have read and understood the following before you are given login details.

Things to consider

Forgotten history
  • There may be something you have forgotten about in your record that you might find upsetting
  • Abnormal results or bad news
  • If your GP has given you access to test results or letters, you may see something that you find upsetting. This may occur before you have spoken to your doctor or while the surgery is closed, and you cannot contact them.
  • Choosing to share your information with someone
  • It’s up to you whether or not you share your information with others – perhaps family members or carers. It’s your choice, but also your responsibility to keep the information safe and secure.
  • Coercion
  • If you think you may be pressured into revealing details from your patient record to someone else against your will, it is best that you do not register for access at this time.
  • Misunderstood information
  • Your medical record is designed to be used by clinical professionals to ensure that you receive the best possible care. Some of the information within your medical record may be highly technical, written by specialists and not easily understood. If you require further clarification, please contact the surgery for a clearer explanation.
  • Information about someone else
  • If you spot something in the record that is not about you or notice any other errors, please log out of the system immediately and contact the practice as soon as possible.
  • More information

    For more information about keeping your healthcare records safe and secure, we recommend that you read Protecting your GP Online Records and this helpful leaflet produced by the NHS in conjunction with the British Computer Society:

    Keeping your online health and social care records safe and secure

    Name
    Date of Birth
    Address
    Email

    I understand that my email address and/or mobile number may be used by the practice to contact you to provide health and care services. For example:-

  • • appointment reminders
  • • health campaign messages
  • • messages relating to your own health and care e.g. test results
  • • surveys about our services
  • If you consent to be contacted by either of the following please tick:
    I wish to have access to the following online services (please tick all that apply):
    I wish to access my online services and understand and agree with each statement (tick)
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    Max. file size: 1 GB.
      Date

      Accessing your Health Record

      Your health record includes information like any conditions or allergies you have and any medicine you’re taking.

      Most patients will automatically have access to more information added to their health record. This includes letters, test results and appointment notes.

      You can access your health record and nominate someone you trust to access it too.

      You can use your NHS account (through the NHS website or NHS App) or SystmOnline to access your health record.

      You’ll need to ask the surgery for online access to your full health record, or you’ll only see your medicines and allergies.

      You can fill out our Online Form (see bottom of this page) to access an electronic record of your medical health.

      Request access to your full health record online

      First, you need to register for online services and prove who you are. To request access:

      • Fill out a Register for Online Services form and choose to access your full health record
      • Upload or visit the surgery with photo ID so we can confirm your identity
      • If you are setting up access for the first time, we will give you a username and password
      • Go to SystmOnline or the app for access

      Access to other medical records

      For any other medical records, you need to ask for them at the NHS service you went to. This includes records like your hospital record.

      Medical Records Access Form

      Accessing someone else’s information

      As a parent, family member or carer, you may be able to access services for someone else.

      We call this having proxy access. We can set this up for you if you are both registered with us.

      To request proxy access:

      • Collect a proxy access form from reception from 10am to 6pm

      Linked profiles in your NHS account

      Once proxy access is set up, you can access the other person’s profile in your NHS account, using the NHS App or website.

      The NHS website has information about using linked profiles to access services for someone else.

      Vaccinations

      Flu

      Flu vaccination is safe and effective. It’s offered every year through the NHS to help protect people at risk of getting seriously ill from flu.

      The NHS website provides information about who can get it, how to book and where to get the vaccine.

      Find out about flu vaccination for adults

      Find out about flu vaccination for children

      COVID-19

      COVID-19 vaccination is safe and effective. It gives you the best protection against COVID-19.

      The NHS website provides information about the vaccination, who can get it, and safety and side effects.

      Find out about COVID-19 vaccination

      Related information

      NHS vaccinations and when to have them