Nurse Clinics
Our practice nurses are registered General Nurses (RGN) and they provide many services without need to refer to a doctor:
- Health, dietary & lifestyle advice
- Smoking cessation
- Taking blood samples
- Checking blood pressure
- Routine immunisation and travel “jabs”
- Dressing of wounds and ulcers
- Removing surgical stitches
- Ear syringing
- Cervical smears
- Nurses will teach self breast examination
- Family planning advice
- New patient checks
- Elderly patient checks
- Home visits for the elderly
The following services are available in addition to medical consultations:
- Maternity
- Advice about all types of contraception
- Cervical smears
- Health promotion (well persons)
- Immunisation – child and adult
- Immunisation – travel
- Asthma clinic
- Diabetes clinic
- Joints and soft tissue injections
- Mother & baby clinic