District Nursing

Our district nurses work in people’s homes and the local community to help patients improve, maintain, and recover their health, cope with health problems, and achieve the best possible quality of life, whatever their disease or disability. Every year our teams help thousands of people maintain their independence and support people return to their own homes sooner after a hospital visit.

Our district nursing teams treat a number of conditions including:

• managing chronic long term conditions
• caring for acutely ill patients
• caring for post-operative patients
• palliative care and end of life care
• medication management
• wound care management and advice
• advice and management of continence problems
• advice about healthy living
• referral to other services