Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Our healthcare assistants are responsible for taking blood samples, blood pressures, ECG’s, basic dressings, smoking cessation and weight management etc. They may also act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

The district nurses work with the practice in providing nursing care, advice and support to patients too ill to attend the surgery.

The community matron is an advanced level nurse who has specialist knowledge in long term conditions, e.g. COPD, heart disease etc., and works together with GP’s, practice nurses and district nurses to provide support to patients.

They offer full maternity and post-natal care