Meet the Team

Practice nurses provide the following services:

• General health advice
• Dietary information
• Heart disease
• BP monitoring
• Asthma reviews
• Diabetic reviews
• Vaccinations
• Cervical screening (smears)
• Blood tests
• Travel health advice

For travel vaccinations, please ask the reception team to send you a travel vaccination questionnaire via SMS or collect a paper copy from reception. Please arrange this at least 4-6 weeks before you travel. Once you have completed this questionnaire, a telephone appointment with the Practice Nurse will be made. If you need any vaccinations, they will book you a face-to-face appointment at an agreed date and time

District Nursing Team

Telephone: 0161 549 6170

District nurses provide holistic care to patients with chronic illness, terminal illness, incontinence, wounds and diabetes. Working mostly within client’s homes, district nurses provide support to patients and their families through assessment of need, care planning, multidisciplinary team working and implementation and evaluation of nursing care.

Active Case Managers

These are highly qualified district nurses who have been given an extended role. They will visit people who have multiple chronic disease and who may need high levels of health and social care support to proactively monitor their health. They are experts in many areas of disease management such as asthma and diabetes.

Health Visitors

Telephone: 0161 215 2030

All health visitors are qualified nurses. Some health visitors are also qualified midwives or paediatric nurses and all have undertaken further training covering a wide range of community health issues. Overall, their role is to promote good health and prevent poor health.

Their skills include:

• Children’s health and development
• Baby massage
• Parenting skills
• Sure start
• Public health / health promotion projects

School Nurses

Telephone: 0161 215 2019

​The ultimate aim of the school nursing service is to see all children and young people reach their full potential. The majority of school nurses work term time only.

Their role includes:

• Assessing the health needs of individual children and formulating action plans where necessary
• Offering advice and support to families on a number of health issues
• Planning and delivering health education programmes
• Participating in health promoting activities in the community
• Supporting children with special needs, including those in need of protection

Other Support Professionals

Community Midwives/ Community Podiatrist

Telephone: 0161 945 3624

Alcohol Link Worker

Telephone – 0161 215 2010

Community Drug Team

Telephone – 0161 490 2251