Nurse Practitioners

The surgery offers the choice of seeing our Nurse Practitioners or the Doctor and we hope that this will help ease the increasing workload in primary health care and make access quicker and easier for our patients.

Shirley is a highly qualified and experienced practice nurse who has undertaken 3 years extra training attaining a BSc(Hons) Nurse Practitioner degree. Combined with her Royal College of Nursing Nurse Practitioner Diploma, and her independent prescribing qualification, she is able to consult with many patients without GP involvement. She has the expertise to be able to examine, diagnose and treat many ailments and to be able to recognise when she needs to refer on to a doctor or other health professional. Very often, patients are aware themselves of the sort of problems that can be dealt with by a specially trained nurse and these may include children's illnesses, ladies' problems, chest and ear infections as well as Shirley's specialist area of interest, Asthma care.

Martin is a highly qualified Nurse Practitioner with Specialist Practitioner BSc(Hons) 2005 and Nurse Practitioner (RCN Accredited) 2007 qualifications.

He joined the Ashtrees team in Jan 2008. He has worked in Accident & Emergency in Chesterfield then Lancaster Royal Infirmary and has worked on General Medical & General Surgical wards at RLI and in the community in other GPs practices. He is soon to be an independent prescriber and is able to examine, diagnose and treat ailments as outlined above. Martin's specialist area of interest is Mens Health issues.

Practice Nurses                                                     

They run specialist clinics for Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, COPD, Asthma and Family planning. They run minor illness clinics. They assist the Doctors with minor surgery. Their work includes:-              

Appointments can be made by telephoning 01524 720000 during surgery hours.    

Primary Health Care Support Workers

We have 2 trained PHCSWs, Jan Wilson and Deborah Gager. Their role is to support the nursing staff and take bloods, Blood Pressure and they carry out new patient medicals. They help out in the Diabetic and CHD clinics and also assist the Doctors with minor operations. They take ECGs, 24 Hr Blood Pressures, Doppler tests, and do basic dressings.

Phlebotomists                                                          

We have 2 trained phlebotomists, Jill Doyle and Helen Robinson. Their role is to take bloods, but they also do Blood Pressure checks and take ECGs.

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