Appointments with the Practice Nurses
We have three Practice Nurses. All our nurses are highly trained and are now able to monitor and advise on a wide range of conditions (see below on this page). To make an appointment, call reception tel: 0151 691 2088.
For advice for teens to 25yrs, no appointment needed, see Young Peoples' Health Service below.
You can book directly with the nurses for the following problems:
1. Care and management of longterm conditions:
asthma - diabetes
- heart disease
- high blood pressure
- chronic obstructive airways disease
2. Healthy lifestyle advice and support:
3. General:
Counselling
We have three fully-trained counsellors: Mrs Rose Dooley, Mr Trevor Favin and Mrs Elaine McCarvell. If you feel you would benefit from talking to a counsellor, please ask to be referred when you see the doctor.
The counsellors use an "opt-in" system; when your appointment is due they send you out a letter to let you know you can have an appointment in the near future but you have to reply to the surgery to tell us that you still need this appointment. Then you will be given a time and date to come. This is because sometimes people no longer need the appointment when it becomes due and it means we have less appointment slots wasted.
There is always a demand for counselling and we can give these 45 minute appointments to people who need them by using the opt-in system.
If you need to see a counsellor, first speak to the doctor about a referral and then when you receive your opt-in letter, speak to the receptionist.
Midwives
Our team of midwives holds an ante-natal clinic at the practice for all our mums-to-be on Monday afternoons. This saves many people a trip up to Arrowe Park Hospital for every appointment. These are the same midwives that the mums-to-be will meet when they actually have their baby at Arrowe Park.
You can make an appointment with the midwife on any Monday afternoon by speaking to the receptionist.
Health Visitors
We have two health visitors attached to the practice. They meet our new mums in the first few days of their baby's life and are available to offer help and advice to all parents until their child starts school aged 5.
Practice Pharmacist
Our practice pharmacist comes to the practice once a week to advise us on issues about our prescribing. If new medicines become available or if there are better ways of using the old ones, she will advise us. From time to time she may suggest changes to individual patient's medication so that you get the most benefit from your treatment. If this happens, you may receive a letter from her explaining the change. Any change like this is first fully discussed with and approved by the doctors before it takes place. We understand that there may occasionally be unexpected difficulties when medicines are changed, and either the pharmacist or the doctors are always happy to talk to patients about this if the need arises.
Young Peoples' Health Service
Sister Crombie runs a Young Persons' Health Clinic which is a drop-in clinic aimed at young people teens to 25yrs who are registered at the surgery.
When: Every Monday 4.00pm - 4.30pm
Where: Wallasey Village Medical Centre
No appointment is needed - just drop in!
Sister Crombie offers confidential advice and information on diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol, drugs, sexual health, contraception and emotional issues.