Practice Nurses

Practice Nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with family planning and healthy living advice. They perform cervical smears, vaccinations, childhood immunisations, stitch and staple removal, dressings and compression bandaging. The Practice Nurses also run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, cardio vascular and heart disease.

HCA (Health Care Assistants)

Health Care Assistants play an important role in general practice. They provide valuable assistance to GPs and Practice Nurses. All the HCAs at the Practice are trained to take blood samples, and are qualified to NVQ Level 3. Our HCAs also carry out ECGs, wound care management, some injections (including flu and pneumonia vaccinations and B12 injections). They also conduct annual health checks and blood pressure monitoring and check urine samples.

Phlebotomists

A Phlebotomist performs blood tests and are often in training to perform some of the other tasks carried out by HCAs.