Community Nursing

First Community’s Community Nursing Service are specialist practitioners who head up a team of community nurses and health care assistants working with patients and their families with acute, complex and end-of-life needs to maximise their health and wellbeing. Only patients who are housebound can access the service.

They can self-refer into the service, or a carer can do this on their behalf

The team provides a wide range of services to patients depending on individual needs, including:

• medication management including diabetes management
• wound care including pressure ulcer prevention advice and equipment provision
• leg ulcer management
• end of life care
• catheter and continence care
• intravenous antibiotics
• chemotherapy disconnection
• phlebotomy

The team also receives referrals from GPs and other health or social care professionals.

This is an NHS service.