Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one. They also help to carry out certain monitoring checks for nurse/GP to review, e.g diabetes, mental health, asthma, ECG. Some of them are trained in providing limited injections, e.g flu, vit B12, pneumococcal, shingles.
Members of the team are:
Bhavisha Patel