Nursing Services

Celia Cornell the Practice Nurse along with Mary Helley & Helen Waterfield, the Health Care Assistants, provide a wide range of services between them including:

• Asthma & COPD checks
• Blood Tests
• Minor Illness
• Minor Injury
• Spirometry
• Ear syringing & hearing tests
• Coil checks
• Pill checks
• ECGs
• Routine injections
• Travel advice & immunisation
• Diabetes
• Blood pressure
• Heart disease
• Diet
• Removal of stitches
• Well person clinic
• Cervical smears
• Dressings
• free NHS Health Checks (click on the highlighted link for further information on NHS Health Checks NHS-Health-Check)

Helen Wilson

is our Phlebotomist and has a clinic on a Wednesday morning, you may know Helen as one of our dispensary assistants.

Community Matron

Sara Williamson.

Counselling

Patients can be referred by a Doctor or self-refer to Outlook South West.

The practice has one counsellor Kathy Kelly who see patients on a Tuesday morning at St. Germans.

Alcohol & drug abuse counselling is available via a GP referral.  

Smoking Cessation Advice

Ask reception for details on the smoking cessation service.  Alternatively discuss it with the GP or Nurse at your next appointment.

Reception

Should you wish to wish to speak to a member of staff confidentially then please ask at reception.  Arrangements will be made to speak in a private area away from reception.

Health Visitor

Clinics are now starting monthly - 1st Thursday of the month at St Germans between 1030 and 1200 for Health Visitor only.   Immunisations are not done by the Health Visitor and are by appointment only with the Practice Nurse.

Practice Clinics

Ante-Natal Clinics

There are community midwifes, attached to the surgery. To arrange an appointment please contact the surgery on 01503 230088 and we will contact the midwife on your behalf.   We offer a full range of Maternity services including, if you wish, and in the absence of complications, home confinement. The midwife and health visitor run a series of ante-natal classes to prepare you for the delivery and afterwards.  These are not actually held in the surgery but a location near to you.

Child Health Clinics

We hold a clinic every Thursday between 1100 - 1200 for immunisations.  Appointments are required.

The Health Visitor holds her clinic on the last Thursday of every month at St Germans between 10.30 - 1200.

The Health Visitor/Nursery Nurse can offer you help and advice of all aspects of your childs health, immunisations and normal development no appointment is required for these clinics.

If you are unable to attend between these times please telephone us so we can make an alternative appointment for you.

Contact telephone number for the Midwife and Health Visitor is 01752 812850

Minor Injury Service

At the Practice we are able to offer appointments for immediate assessment and treatment of minor injuries. 

The types of injuries we are able to treat include:

• bruises
• grazes
• cuts
• burns
• head injuries

We also offer Clinics for:

• Asthma
• COPD
• Heart disease
• Diabetes
• Minor Surgery
• Acupuncture
• Hypertension
• Travel Advice

Test Results

Please telephone for your test results after 10am.

We can only give results to the patient concerned as we are bound by very strict rules of confidentiality.  If you wish someone else to collect these results on your behalf then please inform the practice in writing.

Please note:

It is the responsibility of the patient to contact the practice for  any test results.

Private Services

Some services are not available on the NHS.  Please enquire about the fee before booking an appointment and pay when booking in.

Below are some of the services which attract a fee.

• HGV Medicals
• Taxi Medicals
• Sports Medicals
• Fitness to drive
• Passport photograph signature
• Holiday cancellation form

All of the above are subject to 20% VAT

• Private Sick Notes - No VAT

See updated list of fees by following the link below:

Non-NHS Fees

DOCTORS TIMETABLE AS FROM 1/10/2016

ST GERMANS

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