Nursing Team

Advanced Nurse Practitioners 

An Advanced Nurse Practitioner is a Registered Nurse who has received additional masters level education to increase their ability to diagnose, treat, counsel, and educate patients, who have various illnesses.

Mental Health Nurses 

The practice works with Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Barrack Lane Medical Centre to provide a comprehensive in-house mental health service.

Practice Nurses

The practice has a team of Practice Nurses, who see patients by appointment. The nurses offer a wide range of services including contraception, cervical smears, immunisations, travel vaccinations, and wound care.

They also carry out chronic illness checks for patients with diabetes, asthma and heart disease. The nurses will also be happy to give advice about smoking, alcohol, diet and exercise.

Healthcare Assistants

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.