This has been set up as a result of several donations to the surgery to provide equipment and services to our patients which would not normally be available within standard general practice. Items that we could spend the money on are agreed by one of the doctors in the practice, a nurse and lay patient member of the practice population.
Purchases to date include three pulse oximeters (these are extremely useful in measuring oxygen levels) which are particularly of benefit in a former mining community to accurately determine people who may need home oxygen or specific medications for a particular lung-related disease where facilities are only normally only found in hospital.
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