How can I contact other health professionals?

District Nurses

District Nurses provide the following services: wound management, ear syringing, administration of certain medications, blood taking ( for certain patients), chronic disease monitoring for certain conditions, minor illness advice, varicose vein and circulation assessment and terminal care. They provide care to people who are too ill or infirm to come to the surgery and are frequently involved with patients recently discharged from hospital requiring follow up nursing care and patients suffering from chronic or terminal conditions.

To contact the District Nurses telephone 01270 412803 and leave a message.   Messages are collected on an hourly basis by the District Nurse on duty.

Health Visitors

Health Visitors are available to provide advice for children up to the age of 4 years, undertake child health surveillance and child protection, feeding and weaning advice, baby weighing, sleep problem advice, post natal depression counselling, and advice to smoking parents.

If you are expecting a baby, the Health Visitor will be in contact when you are approximately 36 weeks pregnant as they offer a visit to all prospective parents. The next routine contact is at approximately 28 days after delivery in your home. This visit involves a discussion of any concerns and routine checks. Any problems with feeding, sleeping, child development, family support can be discussed. Follow up visits are offered until mother and baby have had their first postnatal examinations at the surgery at approximately six and eight weeks after delivery respectively.

Further support throughout the early years is provided with routine checks at 9 months, 2 years and 3 years. Baby immunisations will be arranged with the doctor or Practice Nurse.

Our Health Visitor is Caroline and she can be contacted on 01270 781901 and
leave a message.

Counsellor

Our surgery counsellor is Gwyneth Manning-Lloyd and you can leave messages for her with the receptionist on 01270 780210.

Midwives

Our community midwife is Claire Vardy White and she can be contacted between 9am and 10 am on 01270 612177 or all day on 01270 612282.

Claire provides both ante-natal and post natal care. She runs a fortnightly clinic at the surgery on a Tuesday from 1 - 4pm. The midwife usually provides the majority of care during pregnancy, helps with the delivery of your baby and monitors you following your return home. This process usually begins with the booking appointment which is arranged by the doctor and usually takes place at the Practice.

The booking appointment includes a full assessment of your health and discussion of your preferences for your pregnancy and the delivery of your baby. Routine blood tests and your choices for screening investigations are arranged at this appointment. (Bloods are taken by the midwife or at the hospital). Scan appointments are arranged particularly if screening tests are necessary, at 15-19 weeks.

After the first antenatal visit with the midwife, subsequent arrangements depend on your choices. Some tests, for example an ultrasound scan, provide an accurate date for your delivery or for the measurement of your baby’s growth and development and are arranged at local hospital. If the opinion of the hospital specialist (Consultant Obstetrician) is required this will also require a visit to a hospital antenatal clinic. This may be a single visit or several depending on your needs. For most patients the pregnancy is straight forward and visits to the midwife are routine at approximately monthly intervals till 34 weeks of pregnancy, fortnightly till 38 weeks and thereafter weekly to 40 weeks or full term, when the baby is expected. The midwife makes the arrangement for the delivery of you baby at about 40 weeks of pregnancy.

If you are delivered at home more than one midwife is in attendance, but a general practitioner or obstetrician is not routinely available. Following childbirth, the midwife will discuss discharge arrangements and visit you at home on a regular basis until you are confident in the care of your new baby.

Physiotherapy

The surgery has an “in-house” physiotherapy service for patients referred by the doctor.

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