Clinics & Services

Practice Nurse

The practice nurse is available to help with various health matters including the following:

• Advice on lifestyle, diet and weight management
• Diabetic monitoring
• Asthma review/chronic obstructive airways disease
• Heart disease monitoring
• Performing cervical smears
• Teaching breast self-examination
• Travel health advice and vaccines
• Childhood vaccinations
• Ear syringing and ear care
• Contraceptive advice
• Well person checks/NHS health checks
• Venapuncture
• Blood pressure monitoring
• Spirometry
• ECG’s
• NHS health checks

Healthcare Support Worker

The healthcare support worker assists in the running of the clinics and carries out the following:

• Measurements of height and weight
• Urinalysis
• Measurement of blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Venepuncture
• New patient registration checks
• Well person checks
• ECG’s
• NHS health checks