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District Nurses
Health Visitors
Mental Health Nurse
Macmillan Nurses
Practice Nurses
The Practice Nurses are Alison Mason, Lesley Williamson, Lynn Chapman, Lynn Tilley, Chris Reveley, Helen
Charlton, and Julie Hardcastle. They run a variety of important Chronic Disease
Management clinics, as well Lifestyle clinics for men and women. They also offer travel immunisations
and dietary advice.
Clinics to monitor Heart Disease and Diabetes are run in conjunction with one of the doctors, and all patients with either of these conditions will be invited along on a regular basis.
The nurses also monitor high blood pressure and asthma, and the practice has
its own spirometer for measuring lung function. Lesley runs a regular Smoking
Cessation clinic, through which patients can access help to stop smoking in
the form of supportive counselling, nicotine substitutes or tablets.
Lifestyle checks for women include taking smears and demonstrating breast self-examination, checking blood pressure, cholesterol and urine, and advising on weight, smoking, alcohol, diet, exercise and tetanus immunisation if required.
Lifestyle checks for men include blood pressure, weight, cholesterol and urine checks, advice on smoking, alcohol, exercise and diet, tetanus immunisation if required and advice on testicular self-examination.
District Nurses
Our District Nusring team consists of Vivienne Mather, Suzanne Bromby, Karen Keen and
Susan Douglas. They hold regular daily sessions by appointment in the treatment
room at Brockwell, as well as providing a comprehensive home nursing service. They can help with
patients just home from hospital who need wound or other care, and also help
patients with disabilities, incontinence problems and leg ulcers, for example.
They offer advice on health care in the home, health problems of the elderly,
day centre care, holiday relief, respite care, home helps and much more beside.
In addition they lead chronic disease management for housebound patients.
Please ask for them to see you at home if necessary, or make an appointment at
the health centre to discuss your requirements with them.
Health Visitors
The Health Visitors are the professionals trained specifically to help
and support parents in a child's early years, and to monitor the
growth and development of the child. We have a number of health visitors, some of whom work part time, and they work closely with other members of the Primary Health Care Team. They are supported by a nursery nurse during some child health clinics.
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Mental Health Nurse
Val Armstrong is the practice's Mental Health Nurse, who is available to provide
counselling and support to patients referred by other members of the practice
clinical team.
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Macmillan Nurses
Phyll Gordon and Claire Swanson are the Macmillan Nurses who support and advise patients who have cancer, and their families. They are also a valuable source of advice for the doctors and other members of the nursing team in the area of palliative care.
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