Nurses and Health Care Assistants are an important part of delivering care in general practice. Nurses and Health Care Assistants working in General Practice are undertaking an ever-wider range of roles, with experienced nurses assuming more of the traditional workload of GPs.

The following issues can come directly to the practice nurse:

• Contraception or contraception advice
• Cervical smears
• Sexual health enquiries
• Blood results for diabetes and cholesterol
• Any diabetes enquires, including pre-diabetes.
• Chronic condition reviews, including diabetes, COPD, Asthma, high blood pressure and heart disease.
• Immunisations or immunisation advice
• Travel immunisation advice
• Ear syringing (not ear pain)
• Blood pressure checks/queries
• NHS health checks
• Dressings/wound care