Our patients are at the heart of everything we do. Our
ambition is to move further towards services that work together to
deliver care that meets your specific needs as an
individual.
By providing community based healthcare services at home, and
closer to home, we give the people we care for greater personal
control and choice, helping them to stay independent longer.
As the largest community healthcare NHS Trust in London, we
provide a wide range of local and community-based healthcare
services to nearly one million people in the four London
boroughs we serve.
Community healthcare has a number of benefits. Most importantly,
treating patients in their homes and in the communities where they
are comfortable helps us provide a more holistic, well-rounded and
bespoke healthcare service to each and every one of our patients.
Improvements in treatments and technology mean more people than
ever before can be effectively treated in their own home. Not
only does this provide faster and more convenient care for our
patients, it also comes at lower cost to the NHS.
Our services range from district nursing, health visiting and
home-based rehabilitation programmes, to NHS walk-in centres,
specialist diabetes services and educational nutrition and
dietetics sessions.
Our community healthcare services are designed to:
- keep people out of hospital unnecessarily
- treat people in their homes and community instead of
hospital
- keep people as independent as possible, for as long as
possible
- help people recover more quickly from their hospital stays
- increase each patient's quality of life by effectively treating
their long term conditions
- work with new mothers to ensure their babies get the best start
in life possible
- help children develop to their full potential in their early
years.
Our services include:
- Adult community nursing services
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- 24 hour district nursing
- community matrons
- case management
- Children and family services
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- health visiting
- school nursing
- children's community nursing
- children's speech and language therapy
- children's occupational therapy
- Rehabilitation and therapies
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- physiotherapy
- occupational therapy
- podiatry (foot health)
- adult speech and language therapy
- osteopathy
- Palliative care services
- Continuing care services (for older people who can no longer
live independently)
- Specialist services
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- management of long-term conditions such as diabetes,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), tissue viability,
continence
- dietetics and nutrition
- phlebotomy (blood)
- community dental services
- diabetic retinal (eye) screening
- sexual health and contraceptive services
- Walk-in and urgent care centres
- Offender health services at HMP Wormwood Scrubs
