District Nurses carry out many roles for housebound patients, including:
Flu occurs every year, usually in the winter, which is why it is sometimes called seasonal flu.
It is a very infectious disease that can come on very quickly.
The most common symptoms of flu are fever, chills, cough, headache, pains in your joints and muscles and extreme tiredness. Healthy people usually recover within 3 to 4 weeks, but some people can develop serious life-threatening complications and need to be admitted to hospital.
Flu symptoms come on very quickly; more about the symptoms of flu.
Colds are much less serious and usually start with a stuffy or a runny nose, sore throat and cough.
The flu vaccine’s the best available protection against the flu virus. It’s very safe, only takes a few minutes and will last around a year.
Flu’s more than a bad cold and can make people very unwell. It’s highly infectious with symptoms that come on quickly and can hit anyone. In the most serious cases, flu can bring on pneumonia, or other serious infections which can, in extreme cases, result in death.
The vaccine’s offered each winter flu season, which lasts from October to March.
We work closely with other services to help support people and their families at this very difficult time.
Together as a team we work with individuals and their families to address physical, emotional, social, spiritual and financial issues. The core team includes a GP, District Nurse and MacMillan Nurse.
Please book with your GP if you or someone you care for needs help now.
Various charities and support organisations have produced leaflets and materials providing information about palliative and end of life care, bereavement, advance planning, and other relevant issues. Some of this information is condition-specific, and some is more generic.
If you have been diagnosed with a specific condition, it may be worth finding out whether a charity exists which specialises in providing support to people in your situation. Links to some useful information are provided below:
EPS makes it possible for your prescriptions to be sent electronically to the pharmacy or dispenser of your choice.
If you get regular prescriptions, the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) may be able to save you time by avoiding unnecessary trips to your GP.
Choosing a pharmacy or dispensing appliance contractor to process your EPS prescription is called nomination.
This means you’ll no longer have to collect a paper repeat prescription from your GP Practice – instead, you can go straight to the nominated pharmacy or dispensing appliance contractor to pick up your medicines or medical appliances.
There are a number of services that can help you when it comes to looking after yourself if you have diabetes.
The majority of people with diabetes are looked after by the Practice diabetes team.
We like to see all people with diabetes annually and depending on condition, once during their annual health check and usually again 6 months later.
You will receive an invite for both the annual health check and normally a 6 month review. Both of the appointments will be with a nurse and you will need to have a blood test before each appointment.
There are times when you will need to be seen more often than twice a year, for example after you are first diagnosed or if problems are detected during one of the routine reviews. We arrange these additional reviews as needed and may be a nurse or one of the Doctors.
The Practice Nurse and your GP will usually provide this service with assistance from other health care professionals.
Please check with your Practice for clinic times.
If there is a particular problem identified with your diabetes care that we cannot help you within the practice, then we will refer you to a specialist service.
Pregnancy and Diabetes
It is very important that anyone who has problems with their memory has a proper assessment.
If these problems are due to dementia then early diagnosis and referral has many benefits for the patient, their carer(s) and family. It can help them to plan and access the treatment and support they need and to improve their quality of life.
Please book with one of the GPs, who can make the initial assessment and refer you to the memory clinic if required.
We provide a variety of child health services:
We offer annual health checks for people with a diagnosed problem.
If you have one of the following conditions then you normally will be invited for an annual health check.
We invite all eligible patients for an annual health check with Health care assistance or nurse and do blood test same day or will give blood request form.
The appointment will be approximately 20 minutes long, however if you have more than one problem it will be longer. Please contact the Practice for further details.