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Emailing Prescription Requests

We now have a new, seperate, email address solely for prescription requests. The email address is as follows: 

nencicb-cd.prescriptionrequestsacriston@nhs.net

Please ensure the email includes your name, date of birth and the medication that you require and this will be processed within the normal time frame. 

Clinics & Services

Nurse Practitioners: 

Nurse Practitioners can treat you for:
  • Acute back pain, joint sprains
  • Acute chest infection, asthma or COPD
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Conjunctivitis, sticky discharging eye, sty, eye infections/allergies
  • Cystitis
  • Diarrhoea, constipation, piles
  • Dizziness, giddiness, unusual headache
  • Earache, swollen glands
  • Oral thrush
  • Raised temperature that does not improve after pharmacists’ advice and home treatment.
  • Rashes
  • Shingles
  • Tonsillitis, cough, sinusitis, sore throat, colds and flu-like illnesses.
  • (Please note: a cough may persist for up to three or four weeks after other cold/flu symptoms have gone.)
  • Urinary tract infections, Vaginal thrush, soreness, lump or discharge
  • Vomiting
  • Wounds, scalds, burns, rashes Nurse practitioners may also help you with
  • Many other problems such as menstrual disorders, unexplained weight loss, breast lumps, sexual health advice, depression, change of contraception method and pill and HRT.
  • Nurse Practitioners also manage long term conditions such as asthma, eczema, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, raised cholesterol levels, diabetes, epilepsy and respiratory disease.

The practice provides management of care to all our patients who are ill or believe themselves to be ill, with conditions from which recovery is generally expected, for the duration of that condition, including relevant health promotion advice and referral as appropriate, reflecting patient choice wherever practicable, and also provides the general management of patients who are terminally ill.  

Antenatal

Wednesday: 12.45 pm – 3.15 pm for booking appointments

Thursday: 09.15 am – 12.00 pm for follow up appointments

This clinic is run by the Midwives. If you become pregnant, you will be given a ‘one hour booking appointment’ at which the midwife will ask you a few questions and carry out some general health checks. You will be seen regularly at the clinics throughout your pregnancy either at the practice, the local hospital or both.

Asthma/COPD

Led by our Practice Nurse Jillian, she offers advice and general health check-ups to patients diagnosed with asthma/COPD.

Counselling Clinic

By individual arrangements.

Diabetes

Led by our Diabetes Specialist Nurse Practitioner, Beverly, these clinics offer advice and general health check-ups to patients diagnosed with diabetes.

District Nurses

Visit patients who are unable to come to the surgery. For patients already being seen by the District Nursing team, their number is 03000 267 979.

Health Visitors

They can be contacted on 03000 263 538 for advice for your baby or children under school age.

INR (Warfarin)

Friday 8.30 am –  12 noon

Minor Surgery

Monthly clinics

Minor operations can be carried out in our treatment room. Please discuss this with your doctor who will then arrange for you to be given an appointment.

Podiatry

Led by the community podiatrist, this clinic offers treatment and advice primarily to patients diagnosed with Diabetes.

Smear Clinics

Appointments can be made any time with either Emma, Louise or Jillian. 

Other Health Care Services

Social Prescribing Link Workers

Healthier & Wealthier Team

First Contact Physiotherapy

Community Pharmacy Consultation Service 

 
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