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SERVICES OVERVIEW

SERVICES OVERVIEW

SERVICES OVERVIEW

We provide a comprehensive range of services for patients

  • Primary Care Centre, Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, E45 C440
  • 067 27106
  • email@borrisokanegp.ie

Service Overview

Borrisokane General practice provide a number of services that include:

  • General practice services
  • Acute care
  • Chronic disease management
  • Women’s  health
  • Men’s health
  • Dermatology services
  • Community surgery services
  • Screening services
  • Travel medicine consultation
  • Vaccinations – childhood and travel
  • Driving licence medicals
  • Garda doctor of choice scheme
  • CIE employee medical scheme
  • General Employment medicals

If you cannot find the services that you are looking for, or for further information of services offered, please contact the practice directly.

*** Newly Introduced***

Advanced Metabolic Testing

Lifestyle / Preventative Health medical reviews

In collaboration with external laboratory services from Randox Laboratories, Borrisokane General Practice offers the most advanced cardiovascular and metabolic profiling systems that is beyond current available in regular care.

Borrisokane General practice offers metabolic testing as a standalone procedure but for a more comprehensive profile it is recommended to combine testing with our advanced lifestyle / preventative health medicine reviews.

There are a number of packages available with the most common including:

  • Advanced Medical Profiling (>130 parameters)
  • Sports Medicine Profiling (87 parameters)
  • Advanced Male / Female Fertility Profiling (62 parameters)
  • Advanced Heart Health Profiling (15 parameters)
  • Advanced Metabolic Profiling ( 38 parameters)

Other profiles are available on request.

As profiles are undertaken by an external laboratory, both advanced profiling and medical reviews are not covered under the GMS scheme and are subject to charges.

If you require further information on profiling and metabolic / preventative / lifestyle medical health reviews then please contact the practice directly at (067)27106 or email: email@borrisokanegp.ie

Blood Tests

Borrisokane General practice has blood taking or phlebotomy services available.

Blood investigations are carried out on:

  • Monday and Wednesday mornings from 9:00 – 9:45am
  • Tuesday – Thursday mornings from 9:00 – 12:30pm

This timing is due to limited provision of courier services to the hospital laboratory.

In the event of being unable to attend for appointment, cancellation is required.

For the majority of blood tests fasting overnight is not required, however, if you are required to fast then do not eat anything overnight and in the morning prior to blood tests being undertaken. Water can be consumed and regular medications can be taken as normal.

Vaccinations

Borrisokane General Practice provides vaccination services including

Seasonal vaccination services – flu and pneumococcal vaccination

Childhood vaccination services – vaccination services for the first 2 years, including provision of catch-up scheduling and private varicella vaccination

Travel medicine vaccination services – vaccinations for foreign travel

National screen programmes

Borrisokane General practice is contracted in screening programmes including CervicalCheck.

Cervical screening services are available to private / GMS patients and additionally to patients not affiliated with the practice. Please contact the surgery prior to booking an appointment. For more details visit the CervicalCheck website.

Medical forms,reports and certificates

Borrisokane General practice offer services for completion of form related to community welfare and also reports for court services.

Completion timelines for reports and forms vary depending on the nature of the complain and on the paperwork involved.

Completion is subject to a charge that depends on the degree of time taken.

Venesection for Haemochromatosis

Borrisokane General practice provides services for diagnosis of hereditary haemochromatosis and for treatment of excessively high levels of iron  by removal of blood using venesection.

Venesection services costs are covered with a number of private insurance companies.

Please call (067) 27106 for appointments

Or contact us via email form below

We will contact you within one business day.

About Us

Borrisokane General practice - taking care of families in the locality.