District Nurses

The district nurses provide qualified nursing services in your own home, including care to the acute and chronically sick and the terminally ill. The nurses offer a range of clinical treatments, holistic assessments, medical, surgical and palliative care. They also offer health promotion, advice and support within the home and clinic appointments. The District Nurses can be contacted on 01709 426600.

School Nurse

The school nurses can be contacted on 01709 423333. 
They work with parents, teachers, family doctors, health visitors, nursery nurses and all schoolchildren attending mainstream schools. The school health screening programme is offered at the start of full–time education and will continue until leaving school. Louise is able to visit a child in school for a variety of reasons and is also able to visit children and/or parents at home to discuss a variety of issues on request. She will also arrange hearing checks for school–age children.

Midwives

Community midwives are here to help, advise and support you throughout your pregnancy, and likewise for you and your family in the early weeks after delivery.

Your midwife would like to meet you between the eighth and tenth week of pregnancy (there is no need to see a GP first) and will contact you to make an appointment if you leave your contact details with reception.

If you are planning a pregnancy remember to take folic acid supplements, continuing them until at least 12 weeks advanced. They can be bought from the pharmacist without a prescription. They have been proven to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects (spina bifida and hydrocephalus). The doctors and midwives are happy to discuss other aspects of preconception are during a routine surgery appointment. The health visitors are also in attendance at the antenatal clinic to help you prepare for your baby.

Health Visitors

The health visitors offer advice and support to persons of all ages on a wide range of health issues at home or in the clinic setting. They have a particular role concerned with families with pre–school children. This includes input from the antenatal period onwards in relation to parents and babies, health, child development, advice on infant feeding, immunisation, behaviour issues and family planning. The team can be contacted on 01709 423333.