Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
Advanced Nurse Practitioners are qualified to see patients with undiagnosed medical problems, and to make detailed assessment of their health care needs, based on their combined medical and nursing knowledge, including clinical skills that you may not have traditionally associated with nurses, such as history taking, physical examination, diagnoses, and prescribing of medicines. Advanced Nurse Practitioners can also directly refer patients to hospital consultants.
Practice Nurses
Lead Nurses: Pauline Bird and Jan Hole
Practice Nurses: Chaya Sriranganatha, Chelsea Pincott, Christina Comont, Daniella Tansley & Sophie Dixon
Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advise on diet and lifestyle choices, 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 and COPD as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.
Healthcare Assistants
Alison Staite, Anna Yeandle, Jo Burrow & Tracey Tucker
Healthcare Assistants are non-registered Nursing staff who assist in patient care and Practice related duties. They provide essential services like taking blood samples, dressing wounds, giving some injections, processing specimens, and syringing ears. They play a crucial role in supporting the Clinical Team.
Phlebotomists
Jill Geatches & Una Hebden
Phlebotomists are non-registered nursing staff who provide essential services such as taking the majority of blood samples, checking blood pressures and performing ECGs.