Nurses

Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advise on diet and lifestyle choices, coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation and obesity. Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor.

Diane Springall – Lead Practice Nurse

Hello, my name is Diane Springall and I am the Lead Nurse at Summerfield Health Centre. My husband and I live in St Albans and we have 3 grown up children. I have been working in General Practice for 16 years and have specialist qualifications in the management of Kidney Disease, Asthma, Diabetes, Women’s Health, Contraception and Sexual Health, Minor Illness and Nocturnal Enuresis (Bed Wetting). I also work for Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group as a Primary Care Nurse Tutor and support clinical staff in their practice, promote recruitment, maintain retention helping to reform the NHS. I trained in 1981 and my background covers Hospital and General Practice.