Women are invited for cervical screening every three years between the ages of 25 and 49, and every five years between the ages of 50 and 64. Some women are invited more often due to results from a previous cervical screening test.

NHS - Cervical Smears

Cervical screening: an easy guide

Cervical screening: helping you decide

Our local Health Visitors support families with a new baby or child under the age of 5 years old. Their website has useful links to other services and advice for families with young children.

Childhood immunisation clinics are held by the nurses - please phone the surgery to make an appointment.

Getting the right support early can prevent problems getting bigger, so that the young person can enjoy school,home, time with family & friends, and other activities.

They provide assessments and, where appropriate, short-term, one-to-one interventions. They have several ways to support your child including consultation appointments and one-to-one sessions to support children and young people with targeted interventions. They can help children and young people who are experiencing low-to-moderate issues with: low mood, self-harm, anxiety, school refusal, behavioural issues and sleep difficulties. Please speak to your GP about your Children's and Young Person's Mental Health Practitioner.

The Children’s Health and Wellbeing Navigation service aim to:

• Improve support at Primary Care level for children and young people with mental health, neurodevelopmental and other health conditions, and their families.
• Support families to identify what matters most to them, create holistic action plans, and connect to peer support, groups, services, and apps to build resilience.
• Collate and provide information and signposting ensuring access to support from statutory services, community resources and inclusive activities.
• Ensure children, young people and their families know what to do and who to contact if in crisis.
• Engage with children and their families to build an active profile of their clinical and social journey.
• Maintain liaison and build working relationship with key contacts, building rapport with schools and SENCOs/ school nurses/ health visitors/NELFT/Community Paediatrics/Early Help etc.
• Become an Information centre for the patient, their family to ensure personalised care.

The role of First Contact practitioners (FCPs) in Primary Care is to assess patients with soft tissue, muscle and joint pain and to decide on the most appropriate management pathway.

• FCPs are physiotherapists with expertise in the assessment and management of Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions.
• They may also be known as Advanced Practice Physiotherapists (APP) or MSK Practitioners.
• The service provides a First Contact Orthopaedic Assessment. It is not a course of physiotherapy.
• They do not see patients under the age of 16

What is a first contact physiotherapist?

The paramedics work together on the Frailty team. They currently offer urgent home visits for all the practices as part of the Tonbridge Frailty Pilot in which Tonbridge PCN is integrating with other community groups such as the Home Treatment Service and the District and Complex Care nursing teams, working more closely with these groups in order to improve our service to the frail patients within the whole Tonbridge area.

For patients over 65, housebound and requesting an urgent on the day visit.

Contact the Care Navigation Team to arrange an appointment.

NHS midwives hold clinics at both Hildenborough and Trenchwood. If you are newly pregnant you will need to complete the Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Trust online Self-Referral form.

You do not need to speak to our Care Navigator team with regards to an initial appointment. The Midwifery team will allocate you an appointment once you have complete the online Self-Referral form.

Further information about M&TW Trust Maternity Services

Your GP will need to refer you to this clinic.

Social Prescribers are link workers supporting vulnerable and socially isolated people to gain confidence and help them interact with services which will help them to improve their wellbeing and if necassary, help them with linking them to financial debt/ housing services etc. to help improve overall health. It enables referral to a range of non-clinical local services.

Our Social Prescribers will make an initial telephone call to triage each patient, usually within 10 working days.

What is a social prescriber?

By Appointment

Our nurses will be pleased to advise you on all your travel requirements. Please make sure you allow plenty of time to make an appointment before you travel as immunisations may be required. Many travel services incur fees which are payable at the time of your consultation. 

Information and advice on travel vaccinations

Please check with our Care Navigators for clinic times.