Nurse Team

 

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Practice nurses are qualified Registered nurses. Their expertise includes health promotion, disease monitoring, family planning, immunisations and wound management. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailments and they carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out a variety of tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks.