The Health Centre and medicine

Dr Middle and Dr Thomas are our School Doctors and all boarders are registered with them. One of the School Doctors comes to the Health Centre daily, from Monday to Friday at 8.00am, and you can easily get an appointment to see either of them if you need to. You can either make an appointment yourself by going to the Health Centre, or ask Matron and she will organise one for you.

If you feel unwell, the House staff might suggest that you go to the Health Centre to see a nurse for advice (or we will phone from East to get advice). There is always a nurse on duty in the Health Centre. If you want to see someone in the Health Centre but do not want anyone to know, there is a ‘dropin’ session at the end of each school day. Just pop along and the nurse will be able to help you.

You cannot keep any medicine or tablets in your room in East. All medicines are kept in the medicine cabinet in Matron’s office. If you need to take medicine regularly, this is usually done at breakfast time. The member of staff on duty will dispense medicines and you will sign for them.