Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Brian Holgate
Carola Butler
Pauline Fontaine
Advanced Nurse Practitioners are nurses who have extended their skills and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor. They offer same day appointments for patients who have acute problems.
Practice Nurse
Alison Short
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.
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.
Assistant Practitioner
Heather Pollock –
ECG tests, B12 Injections, follow-up dressings and weight management
Healthcare Assistants
Lorraine Russell & Lyn McNeill
Healthcare Assistants are non-registered Nursing staff who assist in patient care and Practice related duties, as directed by and under the supervision of a Registered Healthcare Professional. Healthcare Assistants work collaboratively with the General Practice Team to meet the needs of patients, and provide essential task-orientated services like taking blood samples (phlebotomy), processing specimens, sometimes performing ECGs (to measure heart function) and spirometry (to measure lung function).
Phlebotomist – Azra Thacker
Treatment Room Nurse – Sara Gray
Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner – Sonya Fazeli
Practice Mental Health Nurse – Marco Puig