Nursing background, not just nail care
Over 20 years of nursing experience behind every appointment, which matters when a client is diabetic, on blood thinners, has fragile skin or is being cared for in bed.
Countywide coverage
Home Visit Foot Health CareAcross Hertfordshire:Clinical Treatment at Your Door
Nse Murray is a qualified Foot Health Practitioner and registered nurse with over 20 years of nursing experience. She treats painful nails, corns, calluses and diabetic feet in your own front room, so nobody has to arrange transport, wait in a clinic or manage stairs they cannot manage.
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Why clients in Hertfordshire trust Alicegate
- Qualified Foot Health Practitioner (FHP)
- 20+ years of nursing experience
- Fully insured with Balens Ltd
- Home visits throughout Hertfordshire
- Cash or bank transfer on the day
Foot care in Hertfordshire, in your own home
Alicegate Foot Health Practice is a home-visit practice serving households right across Hertfordshire. There is no clinic address to travel to and no waiting room, because every appointment happens where you already are: your living room, your bedroom, a care home lounge or a relative's kitchen. For anyone who has stopped driving, uses a frame, lives with dementia or simply finds a trip out exhausting, that single difference is what makes regular foot care possible at all.
The county is a patchwork of very different places, and foot care in each of them looks slightly different. Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage are planned towns with large stocks of bungalows, maisonettes and low-rise sheltered schemes. St Albans and Hertford hold a great deal of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian housing with steep, narrow staircases. Codicote and the surrounding villages are rural, with properties set well back from the road. Potters Bar, Hatfield and Borehamwood mix post-war estates with newer apartment developments. Nse works in all of them, and plans each visit around the home rather than expecting the home to suit the appointment.
Treatment is clinical, not cosmetic. Nse trained as a Foot Health Practitioner after more than two decades in nursing, and that background shapes how she works: she looks at circulation, skin integrity, sensation and medication as well as the nail or corn in front of her. Where something needs a GP, a podiatry referral or a district nurse, she says so plainly rather than treating around it.
Where visits happen
Home visits are available across Hertfordshire, with the practice's core towns being Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, St Albans, Potters Bar, Codicote, Hertford, Stevenage and Borehamwood. Visits are made to private houses, bungalows, flats, sheltered housing and care settings.
Arranging an appointment
Call 07939 335744 or send a request through the contact form. Nse rings back to agree a date and time that suits the household, including relatives who want to be present. Appointments run Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
What is brought to you
Sterile instruments, dressings, urea-based creams and everything needed for a full treatment arrive with Nse. The household only needs a chair, a little light and somewhere to put a small clinical mat down.
Ongoing care
Most clients across the county are reviewed every six to eight weeks. That interval is set at the first appointment based on nail growth, skin condition and any diabetic or circulatory risk, not on a fixed timetable.
Treatments available in Hertfordshire
Every treatment is carried out at your address. Prices are the same wherever you are in the covered areas; there is no travel charge.
Consultation with Treatment in Hertfordshire
1 hour · From £95.00
A thorough in-depth assessment and tailored treatment. Ideal for new or first-time clients.
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Routine Foot Care Appointment in Hertfordshire
1 hour · From £75.00
Includes nail cutting, filing, and corn and callus removal.
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Diabetic Foot Assessment in Hertfordshire
1 hour · From £85.00
Thorough assessment for early detection and treatment of complications including nerve damage and poor circulation.
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Hard Corns & Calluses in Hertfordshire
1 hour · From £75.00
Reduces pain and restores comfort, leaving feet smooth and healthy.
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Thickened Toenail Treatment in Hertfordshire
1 hour · From £75.00
Reduces thickness and restores natural nail shape with personalised care plan.
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Ingrown Toenails in Hertfordshire
1 hour · From £75.00
Prevents complications and restores comfort.
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Experienced with dementia and frailty
Clients' families across the county, including relatives of people living with Alzheimer's disease and of bed-bound clients in their nineties, describe treatment that is patient, respectful and unhurried.
Qualified and insured
Nse Murray is a qualified Foot Health Practitioner and is fully insured with Balens Ltd, the specialist healthcare insurer.
Foot problems we see most often in Hertfordshire
Older housing and difficult staircases
Much of Hertfordshire's period housing in St Albans, Hertford and Old Hatfield has steep, narrow stairs with tight winders. When feet are painful, those stairs are where mobility is lost first, and where falls happen. Treating corns, thickened nails and heel pain early keeps people able to use their whole home rather than living in one downstairs room.
Bungalows, sheltered schemes and reduced walking
The planned towns of Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield and Stevenage have large numbers of bungalows and sheltered flats occupied by older residents. Reduced daily walking softens skin, weakens circulation and makes nails grow thick and awkward, so problems are often well advanced before anyone notices them.
Damp winters and cracked heels
Hertfordshire winters are cold and damp, and homes are typically heated with dry central heating. That contrast splits the skin around the heel margin, particularly in anyone who wears backless slippers indoors. Untreated fissures are an open route for infection in diabetic and immunosuppressed clients.
Rural access and transport gaps
Outside the main towns, bus services are thin and hospital podiatry departments can be a long drive away. For village residents in and around Codicote, a home visit is often the only realistic way to keep feet under regular clinical review.
How a visit to your Hertfordshire 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.
Home-visit foot care across the county in practice
A first appointment anywhere in Hertfordshire is a Consultation with Treatment, one hour, from £95.00. It covers a full history: diabetes, circulation, medication, previous ulceration, footwear, mobility, followed by treatment on the day. Nothing is deferred to a second visit unless clinical caution requires it. Follow-up treatments are 45 minutes, from £70.00, and a routine foot care appointment covering nail cutting, filing and corn and callus removal is one hour, from £75.00.
For diabetic clients, the Diabetic Foot Assessment is one hour, from £85.00, and includes checks for early signs of nerve damage and poor circulation. This is the appointment most often requested by families in the county's larger towns, usually after a GP or diabetic nurse has flagged that feet need regular professional attention between annual reviews.
Payment is by cash or bank transfer, on the day of the appointment or shortly after treatment. There is no card machine, no subscription and no charge for travel within the areas covered.
Working with families and carers in Hertfordshire
A large share of enquiries come from adult children arranging care for a parent, often from another part of the country. Nse is used to that: she will speak to whoever is coordinating care, explain what she has found, and agree the review interval with them as well as with the client.
Where a client is bed-bound or being nursed at home, treatment is adapted to the bed or chair rather than the household having to move anybody. Pressure ulcer care, wound care and dressing to prevent further complications, is available at 45 minutes, from £75.00, and is coordinated with district nursing where that is already in place.
Coverage across Hertfordshire also means continuity when someone moves. Clients who relocate from, say, Hertford into sheltered accommodation in Welwyn Garden City or Stevenage keep the same practitioner and the same care plan.
Nearby areas also covered
Home visit foot care in Hertfordshire: your questions answered
- Do you cover the whole of Hertfordshire?
- Home visits are made across Hertfordshire, with the core coverage being Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, St Albans, Potters Bar, Codicote, Hertford, Stevenage and Borehamwood. If you are just outside those towns, call 07939 335744 and Nse will confirm whether your address is covered.
- How quickly can you visit?
- Appointment availability changes week to week, so the honest answer is to call 07939 335744 or send the contact form. Nse rings back and offers the earliest suitable slot between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
- How much does a home visit cost in Hertfordshire?
- A first Consultation with Treatment is one hour, from £95.00. Follow-up treatments are 45 minutes, from £70.00, and routine foot care is one hour, from £75.00. Diabetic Foot Assessment is one hour, from £85.00. There is no separate travel charge within the areas covered.
- Is there an emergency or out-of-hours service?
- No. The practice runs Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, and does not offer an out-of-hours service. Anything urgent: spreading redness, a hot swollen foot, an infected wound or sudden loss of sensation, should go to your GP, NHS 111 or A&E.
- Do you treat people in care homes and sheltered housing?
- Yes. Visits are made to private homes, bungalows, flats, sheltered schemes and care settings across the county, including to clients who are cared for in bed.
- How do I pay?
- By cash or bank transfer, on the day of your appointment or soon after treatment.
- How often will I need to be seen?
- Most clients are reviewed every six to eight weeks. The interval is agreed at your first appointment based on how quickly your nails grow, the state of your skin and any diabetic or circulatory risk.
- Are you qualified and insured?
- Yes. Nse Murray is a qualified Foot Health Practitioner with over 20 years of nursing experience and is fully insured with Balens Ltd.
- Can a relative be present during the appointment?
- Yes, and it is often helpful, particularly where the client lives with dementia or where a family member coordinates their care and wants to hear the findings first-hand.
Comfortable Feet in HertfordshireWithout Leaving Your Home
Tell Nse what is troubling you and she will call you back to arrange a convenient appointment at your Hertfordshire address. Qualified Foot Health Practitioner, 20+ years of nursing experience, fully insured with Balens Ltd.