Attached staff
Community midwives
The ante-natal clinic is held in at Garswood Primary Care Centre from 9am every Tuesday morning by appointment only. Our Midwife runs the clinic and works closely with the doctors to provide quality antenatal and postnatal care.
Community nurses
We are proud of our strong team of district nurses who work with us in the community. They have excellent communication links with the GPs enabling them to deliver a professional, efficient and effective service. They provide a high standard of nursing care for those patients needing various high level clinical treatment within their own environments.
The St Helens team can be contacted as follows:
- 8:30am to 4:30pm
Phone 01744 621700 - 4:30pm to 8:30am
Phone 01744 673801 - Bank holidays
Phone 01744 673801
The Wigan team can be contacted as follows:
- 10:30am to 11am & 3:30pm to 4pm
Phone 01942 775234
Alternatively ask the GP receptionist.
Health visitors
The health visitors can offer advice on caring for children, special needs, benefits, relationship problems and counselling relating to children aged 0 – 19. Child Development checks are also carried out at regular intervals. More information regarding the health visiting team and the services they provide can be found at Health Visiting (St Helens) – Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (wchc.nhs.uk)
Phlebotomist (Blood-Taking Nurse)
Our community phlebotomist holds a phlebotomy clinic every Monday morning. To attend this clinic you need to make an appointment by visiting https://www.sthk.simplybook.cc/v2/ or you can telephone 08081964500 12.00pm -3:00pm Monday to Friday.
You do not need to be registered as a patient of Garswood Surgery to attend this clinic. If you are not registered with Garswood Surgery, please ensure that you bring your blood form with your to this clinic. If you are registered with Garswood Surgery, you can collect your blood form from reception before you have your bloods taken.
Our healthcare assistant, Julie, also offers an in-house phlebotomy service, by appointment only. This service is exclusive to our own patients, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Bloods have to be taken in the mornings at the surgery, as they need to be sent to the laboratories in the early afternoon to ensure that the samples are sufficient. If you cannot attend for bloods in the mornings, please ask at reception about other facilities that offer afternoon appointments/drop-ins
Healthcare assistants are not nurses. They are staff who have undergone specific health care training and are accredited to work strictly to specific guidelines and protocols which have been devised and approved by the doctors. They are unable to answer queries outside of their remit.