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Nurses

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse Practitioners are qualified to see patients with undifferentiated and 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. Nurse Practitioners can also directly refer patients to clinical specialists, such as hospital consultants.

Ann Baker

Nurse Practitioner

Nursing Team Lead & Specialises in Respiratory Conditions
Works – Monday, Wednesday & Thursday

Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)

Advanced Nurse Practitioners have been educated at a Masters level. They use their expert clinical knowledge and skills to make decisions autonomously and independently diagnose and treat patients. Advanced Nurse Practitioners can take a full history, request investigations, perform examinations and clinically assess their patients.

Jane Hughes

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Specialises in Diabetes, Minor Illness & Frailty
Works – Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Practice Nurses

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.

Sharon Blomfield

Practice Nurse

Specialises in Cancer Care
Works – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

Karen Denty

Practice Nurse

Specialises in Diabetes
Works – Monday, Tuesday & Friday

Health Care Assistants (including Phlebotomy)

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 (including Lead Practice Nurse, Practice Manager and GPs). 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, performing ECGs (to measure heart function) and spirometry (to measure lung function). They play a crucial role in supporting the Clinical Team.

Eileen Flack

Health Care Assistant

Works – Thursday & Friday

Julia Lambert

Phelbotomist

Works – Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Victoria Bone

Phelbotomist

Works – Tuesday & Thursday

Nursing Associate

Nursing Associates work closely with Health Care Assistants and Registered Nurses and bridge the skills gap between them.

Kelly Duszynski

Nursing Associate

Works – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Urgent Care Practitioners (UCPs)

Urgent Care Practitioners are trained paramedics that provide management of minor illnesses and injuries.

Tony Joslin

Paramedic Practitioner

Works – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday

Matt Nunn

Paramedic Practitioner

Works – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Warren Bowers

Paramedic Practitioner

Works – Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Long Term Condition Team

Colleen Huddlestone

Practice Nurse

Specialises in Long Term Conditions
Works – Monday & Wednesday

Jude Howard-Bennett

Clinical Care Co-Ordinator

Specialises in Long Term Conditions
Works – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday