Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears. Our Healthcare Assistants provide support for our nurses and are able to carry out the following procedures: Blood tests, basic dressings, support to help you stop smoking, pre-diabetic clinic care, ECGs (including 24 hour monitoring), flu vaccinations, B12 injections, blood pressure checks, urine testing, and health promotion (including NHS health checks). To book an appointment please contact reception.

The Practice undertakes training for Doctors and Nurses.

The Patient Services Administrators provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. The Patient Services Administrators make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Our District nurse team provide skilled nursing care, advice and assessments for patients who are housebound. Patients eligible for this service are those who: are unable to travel to surgery due to serious illness or disability are recovering from surgery and are too unwell to travel need palliative nursing care have undergone chemotherapy or radiotherapy and travel would be detrimental to recovery need treatment which cannot be appropriately carried out in the surgery setting Our District nurses can be contacted via the Surgery on 01305 251545.

The health visitors are able to offer support, advice and a listening ear to you and your family; this can include advice on parenting, post-natal depression, sleep, behaviour management, breastfeeding, weaning/feeding. If you would like to speak to a health visitor please ring 01305 217065. The health visitors are based at Frederick Treves House, Poundbury.

Counselling can help you to deal with life problems such as: Relationships Finding lost purpose and meaning Fear and anxiety Grief and loss Making decisions Anger management Forgiveness Personal history issues Dealing with change If you feel counselling might be of help to you, please see a doctor who may refer you to our counsellor or to other counselling services.

Our Dispensary team is based at our Crossways site and dispense medicine for our patients in Crossways and the surrounding area.