Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Advanced Nurse Practitioners are registered nurses who have completed additional training and qualifications to enable them to clinically assess, diagnose, refer and treat a wide range of conditions, they are able to prescribe independently of a GP. This includes minor health problems and minor injuries.
ANPs can also manage more complicated problems such as patients with long term conditions e.g. Asthma and Diabetes, Women’s health including contraception and Menopause/HRT Management.
Appointments may be a telephone or a face to face consultation.
- Louise Dennis (f)
Practice Nurses
Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advice on diet and lifestyle choices, coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation and obesity. Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor.
The Nursing Team run various Nurse-led clinics for diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease and COPD as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.
The Nursing Team also run teenage clinics – currently we are inviting in 19 years, then 18 years and in September will be the 17 years to 16.
These clinics are Nurse-led and are held on Friday afternoons.
We also offer over 75 checks to patients in their birth month. Housebound patients will be visited at home – usually when the home visit is made for the flu injection.
- Marie-Anne Maksymiw (f)
- Penny Palmer (f)
Healthcare Assistants (including Phlebotomy)
Healthcare Assistants are non-registered Nursing staff who assist in patient care and Practice related duties, as directed by and under the supervision of a Registered Healthcare Professional (including Lead Practice Nurse, Practice Manager and GPs). Healthcare Assistants work collaboratively with the General Practice Team to meet the needs of patients, and provide essential task-orientated services like taking blood samples (phlebotomy), processing specimens, sometimes performing ECGs (to measure heart function) and spirometry (to measure lung function). They play a crucial role in supporting the Clinical Team.
- Faiza Naqvi (f)