SERVICES
AND CLINICS PROVIDED
The practice nurses run the following
clinics:
• Asthma/COPD
management |
• Diabetes management |
• Minor illness |
• Hypertension
(blood
pressure) management |
• Heart disease
management |
• HRT management/
ongoing treatment |
• Baby and child
immunisations |
• Family planning/
contraceptive
advice |
• Stroke management |
We now have a practice nurse-led
minor illness clinic on specific days of the week, which deals with:
| • Sore throat |
• Earache |
• Flu |
| • Headache |
• Rashes |
• Bites and stings |
| • Threadworms |
• Diarrhoea and sickness |
• Emergency contraception |
| • Cough |
• Conjunctivitis |
• Hayfever |
| • Back pain |
• Warts |
• Cystitis |
| • Head injury |
• Acute asthma |
|
Travel advice and immunisations
- we provide advice and immunisations for the more usual destinations. For travellers
to unusual destinations or with complicated itineraries we advise you to contact
a specialist travel clinic - The Health Station at Hitchin, telephone 01462 459595
- who have more specialist information regarding vaccinations required.
Minor operations and removal of warts (these require a doctor’s referral).
There will be a waiting period unless the doctor indicates urgency; nurses also
assist the doctors with minor surgery.
