Health Visitors are fully Trained Nurses with Midwifery experience, who help mothers with young children but are willing to help patients of all ages with a wide variety of problems.
There are two Health Visiting teams that cover Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre:
We provide several specialist clinics for those with long term conditions.
We recommend routine smears every three years from the age of 25 up to the age of 50 and then every five years up to the age of 65. Sometimes they are needed more frequently.
You will be advised when your next smear is due.
Cervical smears are taken in privacy, with every confidentiality by our well trained Practice Nurses.
Results will be posted to you. If you would like the result sent to a different address please check with the Nurse.
The Doctor, Midwife and Health Visitor will see you regularly throughout your pregnancy.
Antenatal Clinics are run by the Midwife and Doctor. An appointment system is in operation.
The midwives provide care of mother and child throughout pregnancy and postnatally. To contact them phone 303618, day or night.
If you are pregnant and have not yet been referred to the midwife team, you can refer yourself here.
We offer a comprehensive service including the fitting of Implanon devices and coils. Our contraceptive services are provided by nurse practitioners.
If you require a blood test one of our doctors or nurses will recommend this to you. The test will help us find out more information about your condition.
Appointments for a blood test are commonly known as either the blood clinic, phlebotomy or venepuncture.
If you are having a blood test you will be given or requested to collect a blood form. You should bring this form with you to your appointment.
The results will come back to the requesting doctor and reported on within 5 working days.
If your results are normal you will not be contacted. If you are required to see the doctor, or prescribed medication the practice will contact you to inform you of the outcome and what to do next.
Frailty is defined by the British Geriatric Society (BGS) as: “Frailty is a distinctive health state related to the ageing process in which multiple body systems gradually lose their in-built reserves”.
The Surgery is inviting patients to attend for a review to determine any help they may need.
It is estimated that around 10 per cent of people aged over 65 years have frailty, rising to between a quarter and a half of those aged over 85.
There are approximately 140,000 people living in Lancashire and South Cumbria who have mild to moderate frailty with health and wellbeing concerns that are amenable to low grade but timely interventions.
Many of the needs identified are psychological and/or social and are reversable with information, education or referral to onward care and support services. These include the voluntary sector and/or Council commissioned services, such as reablement or leisure activities or community services such as physiotherapy. A proactive referral at this stage will result in fewer referrals at a later stage when problems have escalated.