Marian Bennett (RGN)

Marian joined us in March 2011 from Oxshott. She has qualifications in Asthma, Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease. She runs a number of clinics as well as the usual practice nursing role.

Emma Long (RGN)

Emma has just joined the team. She will be running our Asthma and Diabetes clinic. She is new to primary care having come from hospital work but is ready for the challenge!

Nursing in general

Our nurses can advise on many aspects of your health including vaccinations, travel immunisations, diet, smoking cessation, well person clinics and family planning. They administer vaccinations, baby immunisations and flu jabs, perform ECG’s, cervical smears and ear syringing. They attend to dressings, remove stitches and assist with minor operations and coil fittings.

Nurses also run specialist clinics for diabetes and asthma in liaison with the doctors. You can consult the nurses by telephone if you wish. Please inform the receptionist

Christine Warner

Phlebotomist/Health Care Assistant - Christine Warner Christine Warner is our Phlebotomist and Health Care Assistant. She currently works on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She runs our new patient and blood pressure check clinic in the afternoons.

She works from the new clinical room off the orange sub-wait.

Annual Reviews

Certain patients require an annual review to ensure that the medication they are taking is still effective and at the correct dose. It may be that you are under a Consultant or Specialist but it is our doctors who are prescribing the medication and therefore legally responsible for ensuring it is still effective. They may not continue to prescribe your medicines without having seen you. Your annual review should be booked in the month in which your birthday occurs for ease of remembering. See Clinics

Blood tests

Christine Warner Christine Warner has her Phlebotomy clinics late morning/lunch-time on Tuesdays and a long morning session on Thursdays starting at 0830.

If you are having a fasting blood test e.g. for lipids, please inform the receptionist when booking to ensure an early appointment.

Specimens

If the doctor or nurse asks you to bring in a specimen to be sent to the hospital laboratory, please ensure that it arrives before 12 noon. The container should not leak and should be labeled with your name, date of birth and date of sample. Specimen containers are available at reception.

Results

Please allow 3-4 days for blood/urine results and 1-2 weeks for X-ray results to come from the hospital. Some results may take longer. You should ring the surgery 5-6pm to obtain your results. This allows the doctors time to deal with their mail. We will contact you should any result need further investigation, however, we would ask you to ensure you follow up any tests by calling the surgery.

The practice has a strict policy regarding confidentiality and data protection. We will only release test results to the person to whom they relate unless that person has given prior permission for the release of the results.