The Oaklands Practice : The Primary Health Care Team

<body bgcolor="#FF5EAE"> <p><strong>The Primary Health Care Team</strong></p> <p><strong>The District Nurses</strong></p> <p>The services a District Nurse can provide are many and varied but their priority is to implement skilled nursing care for acutely ill, terminally ill and chronically sick people in their own home.</p> <p>District Nurses also provide professional advice and support to patients, their families and their carers to help promote their independence and healthy living. The District Nurses are supported by community nurses and health care assistants.</p> <p>District Nurses are registered nurses with a period of at least 2 years qualified experience. They also undertake a District Nurse course at degree level. Education and development continues throughout their careers so that care is based on the latest research nursing techniques to enable them to reach the highest professional standards.</p> <p>Anyone can refer a patient to the District Nurses with the patient’s permission. The District Nurses can be contacted at the Medical Centre.</p> <p><strong>The Health Visitors</strong></p> <p>There are two Health Visitors at Yateley Medical Centre who are all registered Nurses with additional nursing qualifications and specialist training in Health Promotion and Child Development. In addition to their core service to the 0-5yrs age group of monitoring child health and development, they can also be consulted for advice on other child-rearing matters, e.g. behavioural management, nutritional and parenting factors. They also offer support during stressful times, such as relationship breakdown, social problems, bereavement or post-natal depression.</p> <p>Although their priority is families with young children, their role extends to all age groups. Any person registered at the practice may contact them concerning any health, social or emotional issues.</p> <p>As well as their work with individuals and families they are also involved with groups providing Health Education and Health Promotion.</p> <p>They hold well-baby clinics at the following times :</p> <p>Tuesdays 10:00 am to 12:00 pm<br /> Thursdays 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm</p> <p>These are drop-in clinics, for which no appointment is necessary.</p> <p><strong>The Community Midwives</strong></p> <p>Midwives are attached to the surgery and share responsibility for ante and postnatal care with the Doctors.</p> <p>Our community midwives are skilled practitioners of normal midwifery, who are able to recognise, diagnose and refer any abnormality.</p> <p>They are able to give the necessary supervision, care and advice to women during pregnancy, labour and the post-partum period, and they attend some births.</p> <p>The midwives run Parentcraft and refresher courses and they are available for anyone requiring a consultation in pre-conceptual care.</p> <p>The antenatal clinic is held on Fridays from 11:00 am onwards.</p> <p>Patients are usually instructed to make an appointment to see the midwife at the medical centre by their GP, once the pregnancy has been confirmed. The Community Midwife usually sees the patient for a booking appointment at around 9 weeks of pregnancy. Following this, the patient attends the antenatal clinic at the Medical Centre at 16 weeks of pregnancy and then every six weeks thereafter. Towards the latter part of the pregnancy, the patient is seen more frequently.</p> <p>The Community Midwives can be contacted by telephoning the Medical Centre during surgery hours.</p> <p>All pregnant women will be given information on how to contact the Midwives outside of surgery hours and who to contact in an emergency.</p> <p><strong>Other Services</strong></p> <p>We have a visiting:</p> <p>Speech Therapist<br /> Clinical Psychologist<br /> Chiropodist<br /> Counsellor<br /> Youth Counsellor</p> <p>We also have a Dental Unit for the local Dental Office and visiting Orthodontists.</p> <br /> <p><a href="../home/index.htm" target="_top">Home Page</a></p> </body>