Nursing Staff

Our highly trained Practice Nurses are available to give advice about health problems and prevention of illness. Please make an appointment with the Nurse for:

• flu vaccinations and other injections
• Dressings
• Treatment of minor injuries
• Health screening checks
• Dietary advice
• Family planning
• Family planning advice and cervical smears
• Child developmental checks and immunisation
• Holiday and travel immunisation and advice

Nurse Practitioners

We employ four Nurse Practitioners at the practice.  It may be that the reception team offer you an appointment with a Nurse Practitioner when there are no available doctor appointments to offer. The Nurse Practitioners are highly trained to treat a variety of illnesses and can issue prescriptions to help treat symptoms.   

Health care teams

We co-operate fully with Community Nurses, Health Visitors, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Chiropodists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, Midwives and others to achieve individual plans for our patients’ care.

Insurance Reports & Medical Examinations

These are not part of our NHS work and therefore a fee is normally charged in accordance with British Medical Association guidelines.

Specialised services offered

We aim to provide a good range of high quality health care services from within our practice premises, including:

• Clinics for asthma, diabetes, warfarin management and hypertension and heart disease.
• Minor operations and cryotherapy (freezing with liquid nitrogen)
• Ante-natal and postnatal care
• Heart disease prevention programme
• Well woman checks including smears and HRT
• Counselling/CBT/couple therapy

Contraception

All the partners provide contraceptive services, including the emergency contraception “the morning after pill”.