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The nurses are involved in health promotion and the monitoring of chronic illnesses such as asthma, diabetes, COPD, heart disease, high blood pressure and strokes. They also organize Influenza vaccinations, paediatric immunizations, cholesterol monitoring and dietary advice, travel vaccinations and also give smoking cessation support. Nurse Steenson carries out Cervical Smears by appointment.

Treatment Room -

Treatment Room Nurse - Aisling Rafferty

The treatment room is open by appointment Monday to Friday 9am – 1pm and 2pm -5.30pm

The nurses offer a wide range of services including doing blood tests, giving vaccinations and other injections, removing sutures, performing ECGs, blood pressure checks, dressing wounds, giving health advice, treating minor injuries as well as assisting the doctors with minor surgical procedures.

Please note when you bring a sample of urine to the surgery during treatment room hours, you may wait for the nurse to carry out preliminary tests or alternatively, the sample can be placed in the ‘sample box’ outside the treatment room door. Please ensure that name, address and date of birth are clearly written on the specimen bottle.

Treatment room cannot be visited without an appointment except in an emergency.

Eithne Nugent

Practice Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Caroline Bradley

Data Manager

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

The role of the midwife is to provide emotional and psychological support for all pregnant women. They assess and monitor the well-being of mother and baby and liaise closely with professionals in the Health Care Team.

The district nurses duties include nursing services to the housebound, ill or infirm in their own homes. They work closely with the surgery doctors and can be contacted on their direct line 028 877 39025. They have an answering machine should you wish to leave a message.

Our Heath Visitor can be contacted on 028 867 23890.

The vaccination clinic for children under school age is held every Thursday morning by appointment from 10.30 am to 12 noon. The appointments will be sent to you from child health services and one of the doctors will be in attendance.

Vaccinations will be administered at 8, 12, 16 wks, 12 -13 months and pre school age 3 – 4 years. Assessments will be carried out on your child by the Health visitor at 6-8 weeks and 4-5 years.