We are pleased to offer an extremely wide range of services at the James Wigg Practice. This led to our recent short-listing by the British Medical Journal as the best primary care team in 2009/10. These additional services include visiting specialists who offer a range of services as below.

Additional Services for patients not normally available in Primary Care – see below.

Specialist visiting sessions weekly

• Welfare Rights Advice
• Finance and Debt Advice
• Employment Advice
• Homestart (Young Parents Group)
• CAB home visiting scheme

Unique community patient services

• Parkinson’s Sufferers Dance and Music session
• African Women’s Clinic (Female Genital Mutilation assessment outreach clinic)
• English for Speakers of Other Languages ESOL classes
• Infant Resuscitation Classes

Psychological support services

• Primary Care Mental Health
• Psychological Therapist
• Counselling
• Age Concern Advice - Memory Support Clinic
• Child Psychotherapy
• Marriage Guidance
• Adolescent Mental Health Service
• Community Mental Health Team/James Wigg joint prescribing project.
• Clinical Psychologist (over 65’s)
• Counselling (every 2 weeks) (Somali speaking)
• Strengthening Families Initiative - Tavistock Portman
• Refugee access to mental health project - Santé

Complementary Treatments

• Acupuncture
• Yoga Bio
• Kentish Town Physiotherapy
• Osteopath

Unique add on services

• Toy library
• Waiting room health promotion
• Arts programme and workshops
• Music Workshop (under 5’s)
• Homestart (with baby clinic)

Additional facilities

• ECG Recordings
• Defibrillator
• Phlebotomy
• Travel Clinic
• Baby Clinic
• Spirometry

Other

• Councillor surgery (4th in the month)
• Local medical committee
• BARA local residents meetings

Patient additional services

• Women’s Physiotherapy for continence problems
• Camden Active Health
• Long term condition clinics
• Drug Counsellor
• Alcohol Advice
• Dressings Clinic.
• Ulcer Clinic
• Zoladex and other implant clinic.
• C&I Obesity Advice
• Use of health pod