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Practice Nurses
The Practice Nurses are Alison Mason, Lesley Williamson, Lynn Chapman,
Lynn Tilley, Chris Reveley, Helen Murray, 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 is led by Community Matron Angela Bell and
provides cover to all our patients, whether in Cramlington, Seaton
Delaval or Seaton Sluice. There is a regular daily treatment
room session by appointment at Brockwell, as well as 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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