Clinical Team

Practice Nurse Team

Our practice nurses run clinics that monitor the health of people with diabetes, asthma, menopause and cervical screening (smears). They provide other equally essential preventative services such as childhood immunisation, family planning, smoking cessation, dietary advice, health checks, blood pressure reading, ear syringing, dressings and removal of stitches. Clinics and treatment room sessions are by appointment.

Advanced Practitioners (AP)

All Advanced Practitioners (AP) are highly qualified individual who having undertaken extra academic qualifications and have gained extensive knowledge and experience in their field. Some have a nursing, paramedic, or pharmacy background and all have expertise in a broad area of medicine.

Advanced Practitioners speak and see patients with a wide variety of medical issues from the more minor ailments, and, depending on experience, the more complex issues that arise. The consultation will include taking a full history of the medical problem, examining patients, initiating any investigations deemed appropriate, diagnosing, and treating or referring on to specialist as is required. All this is undertaken with the safety net of support from their GP colleagues who can be called upon and who offer support if the AP feels they need advice or a second opinion.

Advanced Practitioners are now an integral part of the wider medical infrastructure and have been used in Primary Care General Practice and Secondary Care for many years and patients can feel confident that they will be offered a good quality of service if offered an appointment to see such a Practitioner.

Pharmacists

Pharmacists are highly trained and specialise in the use of medicines to treat and prevent medical conditions. Many pharmacists have additional qualifications allowing them to prescribe medications and diagnose and treat certain conditions. Our GPs will direct appropriate patients to our pharmacy team if they feel that their specialist knowledge of medicines would be most helpful to the patient.