If you have any concerns about your hearing, please contact the Practice to book an appointment with Scrivens.
Once you have booked an appointment, they will assess your hearing and determine whether hearing aids will help you. Your Hearing Aid Audiologist will carry out a Hearing Assessment that will take about 1 hour and will help to determine the degree of your hearing loss.
Scrivens will be in the Practice fortnightly on Fridays.
Our PCN Social Prescriber can assist patients with non-medical needs such as social isolation and loneliness. This non-medical support, works alongside existing treatments to help patients improve their physical and mental wellbeing and put them in touch with support and activities within their local community.
This support is free or low cost and includes social groups, physical activities, counselling, information and advise around debt, housing and benefits, help with particular issues or conditions and more.
Our PCN Social Prescriber will contact patients that have been referred to the service and will support them to access the support they need.
Our Practice nurse runs the travel clinics. Forms have to be submitted by eConsult 8 weeks before travel. The Practice nurse will review your form and be in contact with you.
Further information regarding travel can be found below:
Smoking cessation clinics are run throughout the week by our nursing team. This is normally a 30 min initial Face-to-Face appointment. A detailed history will be taken and a breath test for C02 will be performed.
Different medications will be discussed to help you make an informed choice on how to quit.
Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK.
Every year around 78,000 people in the UK die from smoking, with many more living with debilitating smoking-related illnesses.
Smoking increases your risk of developing more than 50 serious health conditions.
Some may be fatal, and others can cause irreversible long-term damage to your health.
Minor procedures clinics run most weeks by a GP who is assisted by a Health Care Assistant or Practice Nurse.
We can remove skins tags, cysts, warts and moles.
The nursing team provide hypertension reviews throughout the week. The review consists of blood and urine tests, lifestyle questions, height, weight and blood pressure checks. Any concerns will be discussed with the GP. Sometimes you will be asked to provide a weeks’ worth of blood pressure home readings (please see below links) or be asked to have a 24 hour blood pressure monitor.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, rarely has noticeable symptoms. But if untreated, it increases your risk of serious problems such as heart attacks and strokes.
Around a third of adults in the UK have high blood pressure, although many will not realise it.
The only way to find out if your blood pressure is high is to have your blood pressure checked.
High Blood Pressure Hypertension (NHS)
Home blood pressure monitoring protocol
The NHS Health Check is a health check-up for adults in England aged 40 to 74. It’s designed to spot early signs of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes or dementia. As we get older, we have a higher risk of developing one of these conditions. An NHS Health Check helps find ways to lower this risk.
This is a 30 min consultation with one of our nursing team.
Families can access the HCP teams by a variety of routes – themselves, through children’s centres, schools or doctor’s surgeries. No referral is necessary – any woman who is pregnant will automatically have contact with her health visitor, as should families with young children who move into West Sussex. Additionally, young people can access the service using text to ‘Chat Health’ on 07480 635424.
Appointments with the Healthy Child Programme are held through a variety of ways, including face to face appointments, video consultations, and telephone consultations.
Crawley Hub 01273 696011 ext. 6860 sc-tr.crawleyhcphub@nhs.net
School Nursing Advice line
The school nurse advice line is available from 9am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Please call us on 0300 303 1137 or you can use the following emails
Crawley and Mid-Sussex Sc-tr.eastschoolnursing@nhs.net
Family planning is when both the husband and wife together discuss and mutually decide how many children they would like to have and when, so that they can give sufficient love, care, attention and good education to each of their children. Family planning is achieved through the use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility (inability to have children). Planning when and how many children to have is the couple’s responsibility, not just the man’s or woman’s. Family planning is just as important for newly married couples as it is for those who already have one or more children. It enables young people to delay their first child till they are prepared to take up the responsibilities of raising a child.
The nursing team do pill check reviews which consist of lifestyle questions, height, weight and blood pressure.
The nurses also give depo Provera injections for contraception.
For more information on family planning and contraceptive choices see below:
Community nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities: housebound patients who have a long-term health condition and/or are frail elderly who are registered with a local GP.
As well as providing direct patient care, community nurses also work with patients to enable them to care for themselves or with family members teaching them how to give care to their relatives.
Community nurses play a vital role in keeping hospital admissions and readmissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.
Patients, relatives or carers can contact these services via the One Call telephone lines:
For people in North West Sussex (Crawley Horsham & Mid Sussex) on 01293 228311.
