College Nurses and College Counsellor

The St John’s Health Centre has two registered nurses, Ruth Dean and Karen Miles, and a College Counsellor, Jennifer Cooper. They are able to help with a variety of health and wellbeing issues. Any information shared with the College Nurses or Counsellor will be treated in strict medical confidence and is not passed on to anyone without your consent.

Please book appointments via Moodle. 

You will be offered a telephone or video call in the first instance. Medical emergencies such as burns / bleeding will be treated as such without prior triage.

Out of term please email Health&WellbeingCentre@joh.cam.ac.uk to book an appointment or call 01223 338664 / 747162. You can also email the nurses individually; Ruth.Dean@joh.cam.ac.uk, K.Miles@joh.cam.ac.uk or J.Cooper@joh.cam.ac.uk.

Please note the Health Centre is closed across the Christmas break and on public holidays which fall outside of term dates. Emails will not be responded to when the Health Centre is closed.

If you need medical advice when the Health Centre is closed please contact your GP or the out of hours NHS 24 hour helpline by dialling 111.

The porters can also assist and signpost: tel. 01223 338600.

Support for mental health issues can be accessed via 111 and selecting option 2. This is a 24 hour health helpline.

For life threatening emergencies call 999.

For University Health and Welfare Guidelines, including on anaphylaxis, HIV, meningitis, sexual assault and vaccinations, please see here.

Confidentiality and record keeping

The College Nurses and Counsellor exercise their duty of confidentiality to all students and respects their right to privacy. Information shared with the Health Centre staff is kept strictly confidential, as with all health care environments. Sharing information without consent would only occur in exceptional circumstances, on a 'need to know' basis. 

Student health records are stored and processed in accord with current health and personal data protection regulations. For further information please see here.