Nursing

Our skilled nursing team covers both centres comprising practice nurses, a nurse practitioner, health visitors and district nurses. Appointments will be made with a nurse with specific training to meet your requirements.

Our highly trained practice nurses provide health promotion, immunisations, travel advice plus vaccinations and cervical smears. They are also skilled in all aspects of wound care. Our nurse practitioner’s role also includes assessing and treating minor illnesses and injuries. If you are unsure whether your problem is suitable for her care, the receptionist will be able to advise you. Each of the nurses has specialist skills in one or more areas of chronic disease management, such as diabetes, asthma and heart disease.

All requests for home visits are taken by a member of the nursing team in order to prioritise their necessity and urgency. Our health visiting team is based at Churchill Medical Centre and is responsible for our child health promotion programme. They run a ‘drop in’ baby clinic are also closely involved in antenatal and postnatal parentcraft. Our district nursing team is also based at the medical centre. They are responsible for nursing care in the patient’s home. Two of the nurses are trained as prescribers.