Disease Clinics
 

Screening and management of diseases is an important part of the practice's work and designed to benefit the health and improve the lifestyle of our patients.
Of course this does rely too on patients taking the advice of the doctors and nurses and sticking to their medication plans and diets. To assist the clinical team we have a Healthy Eating Adviser attached to the surgery who can advise patients on effective weight loss programmes and healthy eating plans.

Disease Clinics:

• Diabetes
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Asthma & COPD

Practice Services

INR Monitoring

We are now acredited for Level 4 INR monitoring.  This means you will no longer have to wait for your results.  A pinprick of blood is all that's needed to enable the nurse,during your appointment, to calculate your INR, tell you what warfarin dose to continue on and when to book your next test.     

Attached Services

The practice is home to the Pembrokeshire Primary Care Counselling Network which works with the First Access Team to offer counselling support to the patient group.  PCCN can be accessed throught a GP referral or on a private basis.

A Physiotherapist and Chiropodist offer private sessions at St Oswalds Surgery and Argyle Street Surgery.  Details of these services can be obtained from reception desks at any of our three sites.

The local NHS Trust - Hywel Dda - have District Nurses, Health Visitors and Midwives attached to Argyle Medical Group. These staff are employed by the hospital but are based at the surgery to help closer working with the GPs and to strengthen community health services.  

District Nurses

The District Nursing team ofrfer skilled nursing to housebound patients, and nursing/residential homes which includes care and assessment of wounds, management of acute and chronic diseases, continence assessment/management and palliative care.

Midwives:

Community Midwives are responsible for ante-natal and post natal care, parent-craft, home visits and home births.

They offer support and care throughout pregnancy and the immediate post-natal period.

Weekly ante-natal clinics, for which you will need an appointment, are held as follows:

Health Visitors

Health Visitors are qualified nurses with special training and experience in child health and education.  Health Visitors not only visit families with babies and young children but aim to promote the health of the whole community.

Clinics are held as follows:   

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements.  This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required. There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

Europe & Russia	North America
Central America	South America
Caribbean	Africa
Middle East	Central Asia
East Asia	Australasia and Pacific

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible  - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations.  These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not held on the premises.  Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Most travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above any normal prescription charge.  This is because travel vaccination is not included in the services provided by the NHS and therefore is a chargeable service.

Travel Health Questionnaire

To help us offer the appropriate advice, please fill out the online form before coming to see the nurse.

Travel Questionnaire