Knebworth and Marymead Medical Practice

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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
• Smoking cessation

We also 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.