Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) are Registered Nurses who have done extra training and academic qualifications to be able to examine, assess, make diagnoses, treat, prescribe and make referrals for patients who present with undiagnosed/undifferentiated problems.
You may be asked to be assessed by one of our advanced nurse practitioners.
Advanced nurse practitioners have gone through strict teaching programmes and acceptable and monitored just like general practitioners.
Lisa Ballantyre
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, RGN.
Jacqueline Young
Advanced Nurse Practitioner RGN.
Patricia Massetti
Advanced Nurse Practitioner RCN
Practice Nurses
Suzanne Simpson
RGN, Diploma Asthma Care, Diabetic Diploma
Jane Hodgson
RGN, Diabetic Diploma, CHD Diploma, Sexual Health and Family Planning
Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advice 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.