Nurse Team

We currently have two nurses who have undergone specialist training in the treatment of minor illness enabling the doctors to focus on more major problems and conditions. The nurses are able to see patients and prescribe treatment for a number of illnesses including: sore throat/mouth, earache, colds, flu, sinusitis, cough, acute asthma, fever, hay fever, sore eyes, rashes, warts, verrucae, eczema, infected wounds, head lice, indigestion, diarrhoea and vomiting, constipation, urinary tract infections and period pains.

The nurses also provide the following services:

Dressings and wound care
Family planning advice, care and counselling
Immunisation for foreign travel and for routine child and adult protection
Well person clinic, diabetes clinic, hypertension clinic, asthma clinic, smoking cessation advice, menopause clinic, alcohol advice
Consultations for advice over health matters
Follow-up appointments for contraceptive advice and health check