Community services

Description

We provide a range of community health services for patients at every stage of their lives from our experienced health visitors who support families and new-born babies to our dedicated staff caring for people nearing the end of their lives.  We look after some of the most vulnerable people within our community.

Our committed district nursing team has over 330,000 face-to-face contacts with patients each year. This includes helping patients to manage their long-term health conditions, support with stroke rehabilitation and providing wound care management.

We also provide specialist community care including continence care, drug and alcohol support, podiatry and speech and language therapy.

Most of the care we provide takes place in people’s own homes. We also support patients at local health centres, GP practices, care homes, community venues and schools.