Nurses

Our nursing team is made up of Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants and a Phlebotomist whose sole responsibility is to take blood samples.

As well as dealing with minor illness, dressings and minor wounds, our nurses run most of the preventative care programme. This includes:

• asthma clinics
• blood pressure checks
• cervical smears
• blood tests (see also blood tests for under 12s)
• diabetic checks
• heart disease checks
• vaccinations

The nursing team also give advice concerning diet, travel and general health matters.

Visiting Nurses

Midwives

The Community Midwives Team (based at University Hospitals Leicester) can be contacted on 0116 258 4834.
For details of maternity care at Hugglescote Surgery and services for babies & children, please see our clinic page.

Health Visitors

Health Visitors are trained nurses with further qualifications in Midwifery and Health Visiting. They provide a full range of children’s services including child health surveillance and well baby clinics.

The Health Visiting team can be contacted on 01530 834059. They are not currently operating face to face appointments from Hugglescote Surgery.

District Nurses

The District nurses provide care to the terminally ill, housebound, elderly and disabled individuals and their families.

They can be contacted on: 0300 300 7777.