ANP – Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Ann-Marie Isah
Nurse Practitioners are all trained specialist nurses who have undertaken additional education in order to provide advanced nursing care and prescribe. Nurse practitioners can provide treatment and advice for many problems for which you may have seen a doctor for in the past
Practice Nurse – Sarah Hall
Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception, and management of long-term conditions eg advises on diet and lifestyle choices, on coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation and obesity. Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the doctor.
The Nursing team run various nurse led clinics for diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease, COPD as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.
HCA – Health Care Assistant – Kathy Drake
HCA’s are fully trained in a wide range of skills including ECG’s, wound management, smoking cessation, Asthma checks and administering some vaccinations including Vitamin B12, Flu, Pneumonia and Shingles.
