Community Nursing

Community Nursing provides countywide nursing care to housebound people. Our service range from providing post-operative dressing changes to end of life care and long term conditions management.

Type

Adult Services - Community Nursing

Community Nursing provides countywide nursing care to housebound people only. Our service ranges from providing post-operative dressing changes to end of life care and long term conditions management. We also provide a small number of clinics.

Community nurses provide high quality care for people in their own homes to promote and maintain independent living through information, guidance and training for patients, carers and families.

How do I register for this service?

Referrals are accepted from GP and other healthcare professionals.

Patients being discharged from hospital that require Community Nursing input will be referred directly to the service by the ward. Patients who are already on the Community Nursing caseload can find contact instructions in their patient folder.

Meet the team

Our Community Nursing team is made up of a variety of skilled healthcare practioners including:

  • phlebotomists
  • healthcare assistants (HCAs)
  • registered nurses
  • district nurses
  • advanced nurse practioners.

Professionals

Referrals are accepted from GP and other healthcare professionals.

You can make referrals to Community Nursing via the Community Single Point of Access on 0300 777 0002 (option 1).

Opening hours are Monday to Sunday, between 8am and 11.30pm. 

Community healthcare services (adults)

  1. Admiral Nurse Service
  2. Adult Community Hospital Inpatient Beds
  3. Adults Speech & Language Therapy Services
  4. Community Brain Injury
  5. Continence Service
  6. Community Nursing
  7. Community Therapy Service
  8. Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
  9. Diabetes and High Risk Foot Service
  10. Diabetes Northamptonshire
  11. Dietetics and Nutrition
  12. MSK Occupational Therapy Hand Therapy
  13. MSK Physiotherapy
  14. Podiatric Surgery
  15. Specialist Dental Services - Adult
  16. Post-COVID-19 and Post-Viral Rehabilitation Service
  17. Specialist Nursing - Heart Failure Nurse
  18. Specialist Nursing - Multiple Sclerosis
  19. Specialist Nursing - Tissue Viability
  20. Sexual health and HIV services
  21. Specialist Nursing - Parkinson’s Disease
  22. Specialist Palliative Care
  23. TB Nursing Service
  24. Unplanned Intermediate Care Team (ICT)