Our staff are well trained in deciding who the best health care professional is for you to see, please ask if you are unsure. When you are offered an appointment it may be with someone who isn’t a Doctor, this guides helps you understand some of the ways in which each Health Care Professional in our Practice can help you.
Health Care Assistant
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement annual LTC health checks. They also help with ear syringing or irrigation, wound care, ECG measurements, Spirometry, vaccination and immunisation.
Practice Nurse
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses.
Review clinics
For asthma, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, COPD, epilepsy, dementia, and mental health problems. We recommend an annual review of the above conditions.
Cervical smear tests
We advise all women between the ages of 25 and 65 years to have a smear test every 3-5 years.
Contraception advice
Confidential advice is available from the nurses including, routine pill checks and the administration of contraception injections.
Vaginal swabs
If you are worried about vaginal discharge or soreness, our nurses will take routine swabs for examination.
Child Health Immunisations
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Nurses can have additional skills and train as nurse practitioners.
These nurses can prescribe medication and can run clinics and help with long term health conditions including mental health illnesses or helping people with learning disabilities.
Paramedic
Paramedics from our practice may attend our same-day urgent home visits as well as making regular visits to the care homes we serve.
They are trained to cope with on-scene acute care; but they may also run clinics and provide continuity of care for patients with ongoing health problems.
Pharmacist
Our in practice pharmacist can help manage your medication requirements, address concerns over side effects of certain medications and help with any concerns you may have about the medications you have been prescribed.
They may also help you to reduce your reliance on medication or change medications to suit your changing health problems and help with minor illnesses.
Smoking Cessation Service
The pharmacy now offers one to one advice and can provide treatment to help you give up smoking.
Additional Services
We currently offer the following additional services:
Contraceptive Services
Dr Kacker can fit contraceptive coils in the surgery after an initial consultation for assessment.
Joint Injection
Some joint injections can be arranged after an initial consultation with your doctor. Most of the doctors also offer a range of joint injections.
Please ask at the reception for more details.
Other In-House Services
A variety of external staff come to the surgery on a regular service to provide local services.
These include the following:
- Physiotherapists
- Counsellors
- Mental Health Workers
