07939 335744info@alicegate.com Home visits across Hertfordshire · Mon–Fri 9am–5pm HomeAboutTreatments Areas Our WorkReviewsContact07939 335744Request a Home Visit - Home - Service Areas - Welwyn Garden CityWelwyn Garden City · AL7 / AL8 # Foot Health Practitionerin Welwyn Garden City:Treatment in Your Own Home Painful nails, corns, cracked heels and diabetic feet treated at home anywhere in Welwyn Garden City, from the Handside and Sherrardspark roads to Panshanger, Haldens, Hollybush and Woodhall. No clinic, no parking, no waiting room. Request a Home Visit in Welwyn Garden CityCall 07939 335744 Rated 5.0 on Google · 20+ years of nursing experience · Fully insured with Balens Ltd ## Why clients in Welwyn Garden City trust Alicegate - Qualified Foot Health Practitioner (FHP) - 20+ years of nursing experience - Fully insured with Balens Ltd - Home visits throughout Welwyn Garden City - Cash or bank transfer after treatment ## Foot care in Welwyn Garden City, in your own home Welwyn Garden City is where a large share of the practice's work sits. It is a compact town, which means appointments across Handside, Peartree, Panshanger, Haldens, Hollybush, Woodhall and the town centre can usually be arranged without long gaps between them, and it is a town with an older population living in exactly the kind of housing where getting out to a clinic is the hard part. The garden city layout matters more than people expect. Homes sit behind long front paths and mature planting, parking is often on-street some distance from the door, and many of the original neighbourhoods have low walls and gravel or paved approaches that are awkward with a stick or a frame. If a corn on the ball of the foot makes those thirty metres painful, the trip to a clinic stops happening, and so does the foot care. A home visit removes that obstacle entirely. Nse Murray is a qualified Foot Health Practitioner and registered nurse with over 20 years of nursing experience. She treats the whole foot in context: nails, hard skin, heel pain, fungal infection and diabetic risk, alongside the medication, mobility and circulation issues that sit behind them. ### Neighbourhoods covered Handside, Sherrardspark, Peartree, Panshanger, Haldens, Hollybush, Woodhall, Ludwick, Knightsfield and the town centre, plus the surrounding villages of Old Welwyn, Digswell and Ayot. ### Property types Original garden city houses, 1930s semis, post-war terraces and maisonettes, retirement bungalows and sheltered flats. Nse works in all of them, including upstairs flats without a lift. ### Booking a visit Call 07939 335744 or use the contact form and Nse will ring back to agree a time. Appointments are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. ### Typical review interval Six to eight weeks for most Welwyn Garden City clients, agreed at the first appointment rather than assumed. ## Treatments available in Welwyn Garden City Every treatment is carried out at your address. Prices are the same wherever you are in the covered areas; there is no travel charge. ### Routine Foot Care Appointment in Welwyn Garden City 1 hour · From £80.00 Includes nail cutting, filing, and corn and callus removal. Read more → ### Diabetic Foot Assessment in Welwyn Garden City 1 hour · From £85.00 Thorough assessment for early detection and treatment of complications including nerve damage and poor circulation. Read more → ### Thickened Toenail Treatment in Welwyn Garden City 1 hour · From £75.00 Reduces thickness and restores natural nail shape with personalised care plan. Read more → ### Fungal Nail Infections in Welwyn Garden City 1 hour · From £75.00 Addresses the infection and prevents recurrence. Read more → ### Hard Corns & Calluses in Welwyn Garden City 1 hour · From £75.00 Reduces pain and restores comfort, leaving feet smooth and healthy. Read more → ### Nail Cutting & Filing Only in Welwyn Garden City 30 minutes · From £67.00 Particularly important for diabetic individuals to prevent infection. Read more → All 15 treatments and prices ## Why Welwyn Garden City households choose Alicegate ### A regularly served town Welwyn Garden City is one of the practice's core areas, which makes it straightforward to keep six-to-eight-week review appointments running to schedule. ### Trusted with vulnerable clients Local families have described care for a parent with Alzheimer's disease and for a bed-bound relative in his nineties as compassionate, professional and thoughtful. ### Clinically qualified Qualified Foot Health Practitioner, over 20 years of nursing experience, fully insured with Balens Ltd. ## Foot problems we see most often in Welwyn Garden City ### Long approaches and doorstep steps Garden city frontages put distance and often a step or two between the pavement and the door. Painful corns, calluses and ingrown nails make that approach the deciding factor in whether somebody leaves the house at all, so foot problems here cost independence quickly. ### Maisonettes and upstairs flats without lifts A good deal of Peartree, Haldens and Hollybush housing is two-storey maisonettes reached by an external stair. Residents descending those steps with thickened nails or heel pain load the forefoot awkwardly, which is a common reason for the corn and callus pattern seen locally. ### Interwar housing with steep internal stairs Original Handside and Sherrardspark properties have narrow, steep staircases. Cracked heels and plantar heel pain turn those stairs into a fall risk long before anyone calls it a mobility problem. ### Damp winters, dry central heating The same seasonal pattern as the rest of the county: damp outdoors, dry indoors, skin that splits at the heel margin. In diabetic clients that combination is the most common route to a wound that will not close on its own. ## How a visit to your Welwyn Garden City home works - Step 1 ### Call or request a visit Tell Nse what is troubling you. She rings back to agree a date, a time and who else should be there. - Step 2 ### Assessment at home History, medication, circulation, sensation and skin condition are checked before anything is treated. - Step 3 ### Treatment the same visit Nails, corns, callus, fissures or dressings are dealt with on the day using sterile instruments brought to the house. - Step 4 ### Findings explained You and any family member present hear exactly what was found, what was done and what to watch for. - Step 5 ### Review agreed Most clients are reviewed every six to eight weeks, with anything needing a GP or district nurse flagged clearly. ## What Welwyn Garden City clients ask for most Routine foot care, nail cutting, filing and corn and callus removal in one appointment, is the most requested visit in the town, at one hour, from £75.00. It suits people who have simply reached the point where reaching their own feet is no longer safe or comfortable, and it is the appointment most often set up by adult children for a parent. Diabetic Foot Assessment, one hour from £85.00, is the second. Welwyn Garden City has a substantial older population, and where diabetes is in the picture, feet need looking at between annual GP reviews rather than once a year. The assessment covers early detection of complications including nerve damage and poor circulation, and nail cutting for diabetic clients is treated as a clinical task rather than a cosmetic one, because it is the single most common route to infection. Thickened and fungal nails follow closely. Thickened Toenail Treatment is one hour, from £75.00, and Fungal Nail Infections are treated at one hour, from £75.00, addressing the infection and reducing the chance of recurrence. ## Coverage around Welwyn Garden City Because the practice also works in Hatfield, Codicote, Hertford and Stevenage, clients on the edges of Welwyn Garden City are covered whichever side of the town they live on. Households in Digswell, Old Welwyn and Ayot fall within the same coverage. That geography also helps families who are managing care in two places at once: a parent in Welwyn Garden City and another relative in Hatfield or Hertford, for example, because both can be seen by the same practitioner with the same notes and the same review interval. Payment is by cash or bank transfer soon after treatment, with no travel surcharge anywhere in the town. ## Nearby areas also covered - Home visit foot care in Hatfield - Home visit foot care in Codicote - Home visit foot care in Hertford - Home visit foot care in Stevenage - Home visit foot care in St Albans - All areas covered → ## Next steps Read about Nse Murray and the practice, browse treatments and prices, see the practice homepage or request a home visit. - Hertfordshire - Welwyn Garden City - Hatfield - St Albans - Potters Bar - Codicote - Hertford - Stevenage - Borehamwood - Welwyn - Hemel Hempstead - Hitchin - Enfield - Barnet ## Home visit foot care in Welwyn Garden City: your questions answered Do you visit homes in Welwyn Garden City?Yes. Welwyn Garden City is one of the practice's core areas, covering Handside, Peartree, Panshanger, Haldens, Hollybush, Woodhall, the town centre and the surrounding villages. How soon can you get to me in Welwyn Garden City?Availability varies week to week. Call 07939 335744 or send the contact form and Nse will ring back with the earliest suitable appointment, Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm. How much is a home visit in Welwyn Garden City?First Consultation with Treatment is one hour, from £95.00. Routine foot care is one hour, from £80.00, and follow-up treatments are 45 minutes, from £70.00. No extra travel charge within the town. Can you treat diabetic feet at home here?Yes. Diabetic Foot Assessment is one hour, from £85.00, and covers early detection of complications including nerve damage and poor circulation. Nail cutting and filing only, at 30 minutes from £65.00, is also available for diabetic clients between assessments. Do you offer emergency appointments in Welwyn Garden City?No. The practice runs Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. For a hot, swollen or spreading infection, contact your GP, NHS 111 or A&E. Can you visit an upstairs flat or maisonette?Yes. Nse visits maisonettes, upstairs flats and sheltered housing throughout the town, including properties without a lift. My mother has dementia: will she cope with an appointment?Familiar surroundings usually make it easier, not harder. Local families have specifically praised the way Nse engages with relatives living with Alzheimer's disease throughout the visit. A family member is welcome to stay. How often should treatment be repeated?Most Welwyn Garden City clients are reviewed every six to eight weeks, set at the first appointment according to nail growth, skin condition and diabetic risk. How do I pay?Cash or bank transfer, soon after treatment. ## Comfortable Feet in Welwyn Garden CityWithout Leaving Your Home Tell Nse what is troubling you and she will call you back to arrange a convenient appointment at your Welwyn Garden City address. Qualified Foot Health Practitioner, 20+ years of nursing experience, fully insured with Balens Ltd. Request a Home VisitCall 07939 335744 Clinical foot health care delivered in your own home by Nse Murray, qualified Foot Health Practitioner and registered nurse. 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