Community Nurses

The team is lead by the district nurse, an experienced, qualified nurse who has undertaken specialist training in community nursing in the home. She/he will be your named nurse but you will also see other members of the nursing team: Staff nurses who are qualified nurses. Healthcare assistants who have undergone training in community care.

The district nurse or another member of the team, will look at your particular needs and agree a plan of care with you. They provide skilled nursing care for people who need to be nursed at home. There is also an ‘out of hours’ service in the evening and through the night so that nursing care can be provided 24 hours a day.

District nurses visit to provide:

• Support and nursing care for palliative and terminally ill patients.
• Support for patients with long term illnesses
• Wound care
• Post operative care
• Catheter management
• Health Screening and injections
• Assessment and referral to other appropriate services

District nurses also run specialist clinics in the community. Please contact your District Nursing Team via your GP or directly at the Health Centre on 01234 310410 or 0845 6024064.

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing. Health Visitors and School Nursing team members are based at the practice Monday to Friday. To speak to them please ring 0300 555 0606. There is an answer phone facility available in the event they are out of the office.

Social Prescribing Team

Our practice has a range of link workers that make up our social prescribing team.

Social prescribing is an approach to healthcare that connects people to non-clinical services in their community to meet their practical, social, and emotional needs. This can help to improve people’s health and wellbeing, and reduce their reliance on medical services.

Social prescribing can be used to address a wide range of issues, including:

• Loneliness and isolation
• Mental health problems
• Physical health problems
• Financial hardship
• Domestic violence
• Learning disabilities

If you want to find out more information about our social prescribing team please click here (then add a page for social prescribing team) or visit www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/social-prescribing

Our Social prescribing team

Meet our social prescribing team, each prescriber has written a short paragraph on their role and how they can help you below.

Natalie – Social Prescriber

We will talk and work out what matters to you. I can connect you with activities and services in the community to give you a more meaningful life and better wellbeing.

Terry – Lead Social Prescriber

If you are finding things a little tough now, ask to talk to me. I can spend time with you, listen to you, and connect you, all to help you live a better life, and improve your health and wellbeing.

Gabi – Social Prescriber Maternity

I will help guide you through the antenatal process, ensuring all the support you need is engaged in the best way to support you, your baby and your family.

Meet our other staff members in our wellbeing team

Jill – Health and wellbeing coach

Need some help to make sense of where you are at now, and how to get to where you want to be? This is where I can help you make sense and support you through, working on what is most important to you.

Rebecca – Mental Health Occupational Therapist

My focus is to help people carry out all activities of daily life, and to enable people to do the thing they want and need to do, to live as full and independent life as possible