Nursing Team

The practice has a team of highly trained and experienced nurses and three health care assistants to provide you with your routine and specialist care.  They provide assessment, screening, treatment, care and education and have a strong focus on health promotion, both planned and opportunistic.

Our trained and experienced Healthcare Assistants are able to deal with an increasing range of services including blood pressure measuring, ECGs, dietary advice and simple wound management. They also run Weight Management and Smoking Cessation Clinics.

Within our team we also have nurses who are able to prescribe for a range of conditions.

Our Nursing Team offers general nursing services including: leg ulcer management, blood pressure management, cervical smears, ear syringing, immunisations, and are also skilled in a variety of specialities including:

• Family planning
• Minor illness Nurses trained to diagnose and prescribe for a number of different conditions and can see anyone over 1 year old.

Health Care Assistants

Healthcare Assistants cover BP checks, chaperoning, ECG, 24 hours BP monitor, smoking cessation, weight management, Find out more…

Management Team

Other Staff

Midwives

Midwives work with the doctors at the practice to provide antenatal and postnatal care to patients.  Antenatal clinics are held at the surgery, except for Essex patients whose midwives make separate arrangements.  Messages for midwives can be left with the receptionists or you can contact them on 01438 284533. The midwives hold regular antenatal clinics at the surgery and doctors see patients for antenatal care during their surgeries.

Health Visitors

A team of health visitors work with the doctors and are especially involved in the healthcare of infants and children, as well as health promotion for all age groups.  They are based at Herts and Essex Hospital and can be contacted on 01279 827902.

District Nurses

A team of District Nurses work with the surgery.  They provide nursing duties to housebound patients every day of the week, as well as weekend cover. Arrangements for nursing care are made by the doctor, but the District Nurses can be contacted on 01279 827503 and are based at Herts and Essex Hospital.