The Practice Nurse is an important part of the Primary Health Care Team.  Below are some of the many and varied services which are provided:

• Health Promotion
• Dietary and lifestyle advice
• Travel advice and vaccinations
• Asthma checks
• Diabetic checks
• Healthy Heart checks
• Smoking cessation advice
• Dressing of wounds and removal of stitches
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease checks

When making an appointment with the nurse, it would be helpful if you could tell the receptionist what it is for.  This will ensure that the correct amount of time is allocated for your appointment.

Our Midwife is based at Feastfield Medical Centre but holds a weekly ante-natal clinic at The Spring Gables Surgery on Monday afternoons and at Feastfield Medical Centre on Tuesday mornings by appointment. She is available to give advice on pre-conceptual care, ante-natal screening and place of delivery.

* Please note to make your initial appointment with the Midwife you will need to self refer using the Maternity Self-Referral Form which can be found at the Maternity Unit Web Pages, on the Harrogate District Hospital website or you can click here. Alternatively if you do not have internet access you can call the  Ante-Natal Clinic on 01423 553177 / 553010.

If your child is due an immunisation, you should be sent a reminder from the practice. Please book an appointment with the nurse for immunisations. Immunisations prevent serious diseases.

Click here for the NHS immunisation schedule.

Nidderdale Group Practice runs nurse led clinics for patients who suffer with angina and/or have had an heart attack in the past. The clinics are an opportunity to try and help improve the management of your condition.

You will usually have a blood test a week or so before coming to the clinic. The blood test is used to test your cholesterol level, your kidney function and your sugar (glucose) level.

At the clinic the nurse will check that your blood pressure is not too high and will discuss how well you are managing and your current medication. Sometimes a urine sample is taken to assess how well your kidneys are working.

It is important to try and attend the clinic so that we can try and keep your heart in the best health possible.

Female doctors are available at all three surgeries for advice on family planning and sexual health. Most procedures can be performed in normal surgery times but the doctor/nurse needs to know in advance of the appointment so that specialist equipment can be sterilised.

Contraception is free. There are many different types of contraception available now and it is important to find one that you get along with and which suits you and your lifestyle. If you would like a contraceptive implant or a coil fitted, please make an appointment with one of our doctors who has been trained to fit these methods (Dr Austen, Dr Locke and Dr Thomas).

If your smear is due you will be sent a reminder from the NHS North Yorkshire & York Screening Department and you should make an appointment with a nurse. The ideal time to have a smear is midway between periods.