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.