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   Team Leader:

Dee Howkins   BSc (Hons) Nurse Practitioner.  R.G.N.                       A33 Specialist Practice Nurse.           Family Planning Certified. A81  Developing Autonomous Practice.  Asthma Diploma. 

Dee Howkins - Nurse Practitioner

Dee has spent the majority of her career in Primary Care and Public Health in the general practice setting. She has worked as a Practice Nurse, Research Nurse, Health Promotion Specialist and Nurse Practitioner.

Socially she is a mother and grandmother who lives on a farm in a very remote rural location and has a good understanding of the problems facing farmers and rural populations, including access to health care.

Working partnerships with a multitude of agencies has enabled us to affect policy making decisions at the highest level and has been of great benefit to our clients - so that we feel we can solve problem, great or small.

Base: Carnforth Clinic

  Market Street

 CARNFORTH   LA5 9JU

Free-phone: 0800 783 4530

Mobile: 0774 779 5641

E-mail Carnforth.FarmersHealth@mbpct.nhs.uk

Jane Hartley - Support worker
Support Worker
 

Contacts - as above

The Nurse Practitioner can be seen without an appointment at the auction marts or contacted directly by phone, and home visits can be arranged.  Any aspect of physical or mental health can be discussed in confidence, and any necessary follow-up action arranged

Staff have farming backgrounds and understand the problems and pressures in agriculture.  Referrals can also be made to other organisations able to offer further advice on:

The Nurse Practitioner is unable to give a clinical diagnosis by e-mail but is happy to discuss problems on the phone (we reply to messages as soon as possible) Alternatively ring your GP or contact NHS Direct for this service.

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