She is responsible for running most of the chronic disease management services (High Blood Pressure, Angina, Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Kidney Chronic Disease) as well as pill checks, Cervical smears, HRT checks and general health promotional advice including smoking cessation work and baby immunisations. She also does the new patient checks and can assist with other issues such as where someone may wish to consult a female about a sensitive health issue. If doing this it is important to bear in mind she isn’t trained as a doctor and as such may need to get help from one of the doctors but clearly this would be done in a sensitive and tactful manner.

Although she is a nurse and is trained in all routine treatment room type procedures such as dressings, ear syringing etc, due to time pressures she is unable to routinely offer these services and instead will direct you to the treatment room service run by the district nurse.

Student Practice Nurses

These are generally fully qualified nurses who are specialising in Practice Nursing. They are with us generally for a six to twelve month period and undertake all the normal duties of a practice nurse. Again they are clearly supervised during this time and so occasionally the consultation may take longer than might typically be expected due to these checks. These are to ensure your satisfaction and health so please bear with us should this be the case.