Attached staff
District Nursing Team
We have a large team of district nurses, including Anna, Sue, Eileen, Angela (1), Angela (2), Angie, Beth, Eva, Charlotte, Emma (1), Emma (2), Pam, Rachael, Tamma and Janice, attached to the practice who provide nursing care to patients in their homes.
The district nurse team are based in the surgery and provide nursing care to patients during periods of illness/incapacity in non-hospital settings, such as the patients own home, residential care homes or health centres. Patients include those who are housebound, the elderly, the terminally ill, the disabled and those who have recently been discharged from hospital.
A fundamental part of district nursing is promoting healthy lifestyles and health education/teaching.
The team's work activities include:
- Accepting referrals from GPs, hospitals, other agencies, patients and their relatives
- Assessing, planning, implementing and managing the care of patients
- Offering emotional support to patients, their families and carers, and teaching basic care-giving skills
- Establishing links with patients' families, carers and other health professionals
- Identifying social care problems and liaising with appropriate organisations where necessary
- Checking temperature, blood pressure and pulse readings, administering injections, wound care, leg ulcer care, taking blood and urine samples, continence care, palliative and terminal care
- Assessing for and ordering equipment as required
- Liaising with GPs
Health Visitor Team
We have a team of two health visitors (Gill and Caz) and a nursery nurse (Stephanie) attached to the practice. They advise on all aspects of childcare and operate the drop in child health clinic. They also organise classes and groups for different patients in conjunction with other practice members such as parent craft classes.
Health Visitors are registered nurses with specialist training in family health. The work and activity undertaken by the Health Visiting Service can be broadly broken down into the following areas:
The health of your baby or young child
Every family with pre-school children has a named health visitor who can advise on everyday care, feeding, growth and development and minor ailments, parenting classes, managing behaviour and any special needs your child may have. A drop-in child health clinic is held each week and routine reviews of your child's progress are held at intervals throughout the first 4 years. The Health Visitors also organise the childhood immunisation programme.
Living a healthy life
Health visitors can help you to make sense of the conflicting media messages about health lifestyles by providing practical advice on how to stay healthy. They run health promotion groups and also represent your views about health needs in the community, influence policies and participate in health service developments.
Supporting Families
We are not just there to support your baby, but the whole family. Health Visitors can:
- Support women with post natal depression
- Advise on employment and benefit rights
- Give information on local support networks
- Advise on options for child care
- Provide support for single parents
- Address conflicts within the family, including domestic violence
Community Matron
Mandy is our Community Matron and she manages patients with long term conditions in their homes.
Midwives
Community midwifes (Jill and Carol) are attached to the practice. The midwifes operate the antenatal clinics and visit both antenatal and postnatal patients in their homes.
Counsellor
We have an in-house counsellor, as part of the RightSteps counselling service.
Meet the rest of our team
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