Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

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.

This service provides skilled nursing care, advice and support to patients and their carers in their own homes, taking opportunities to promote health through education. Individual programmes of care are developed in partnership with patients and carers following a full assessment of needs. Appropriate district nurse referrals may include wound management, prescribed treatments in the home, long-term management and support of patients with chronic degenerative illness, preventing health complications with immobility, disability or existing illnesses, palliative and terminal care, teaching self-care procedure to enable patients to manage their own health needs, helping patients, and carers, to adapt to limitations imposed by health related problems, nursing and residential care assessments. This service may be contacted between 08:30 and 17:30 via a paging system – call 01924 584986. When your call is answered, ask for Rother Valley 3, this puts you through to Ambulance Control who will deal with your call and pass messages to the district nurses. You may also leave a message on an answerphone (01909) 517415.

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing. The health visitors may be contacted, Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 on (01709) 335076/335078.

This service provides advice and health needs for school aged children, at the local schools. The school nurses can be contacted through the Dinnington Clinic on (01709) 335080 or 01709 335076.