Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
Nurse Practitioners are qualified to see patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed medical problems, and to make detailed assessment of their health care needs, based on their combined medical and nursing knowledge, including clinical skills that you may not have traditionally associated with nurses, such as history taking, physical examination, diagnoses, and prescribing of medicines. Nurse Practitioners can also directly refer patients to clinical specialists, such as hospital consultants.
Karen MacCallum
MSc Advanced Practice, BSc Nursing, COPD Diploma, Diabetes Diploma, Nurse Prescriber
Susan MacLean
RGN, DN, Nurse Prescriber
Practice Nurses
Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advise on diet and lifestyle choices, coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation and obesity. Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor.
The Nursing Team run various Nurse-led clinics for diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease and COPD as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.
Claire Sinclair
BN, Cervical Screening Certificate
Ros Hood
RN
Christine Williamson
RN
Practice Mental Health Nurses
The Practice Mental Health Nurses form an integral part of the community mental health team. They are often patients’ key workers within the NHS mental health system and the first port of call for further referrals to psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals.
Zoe Fitzpatrick
Lindsay Taylor