Community Services
The community teams provide a range of services including district nursing, health visiting, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, podiatry and community midwifery/maternity services.
A range of health promotion services are also available, including Sexual Health and Smoking Cessation.
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Clinics within Gloucestershire
Drug and Alcohol Team
Physiotherapy Services
Podiatry Services
Speech and Language Therapy
Care Home Support Team
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Care Home Support Team
Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP)
New Horizons
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Children's Community Nursing Team
Look After Your Legs
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Encourage patient participation and involvement in looking after their legs.
Community Nursing Services
Community Nursing services are based in GP practices, the health centres or community hospitals. The service aims to provide nursing care to patients in their own homes. Examples of the care that the community nurses provide includes supporting patients discharged from hospital, palliative care for dying patients and caring for patients with serious disabilities. The community nursing teams work closely with other agencies such as the County Council's Community and Adult Care Directorate and the community hospitals.
School Nursing Services
School Nurses provide a full range of services to children and young people
in school and community settings. They work in partnership with children,
young people, families, teachers, schools, and other agencies both statutory
and voluntary. They aim to facilitate healthy life style choices and improve
the health and wellbeing of children and young people.
School nursing teams provide school entry screening and 'drop-in' sessions
for young people. They offer advice and support, and listen (confidentially)
on a one to one basis. They refer and liaise with other people and organisations.
School nurses also undertake immunisations and other health screening activities.
They support children with chronic and complex medical and provide advice
to families and teachers.
School nurses promote health via personal social health education sessions
and sexual health relationship education as very important areas of their
work. This is in addition to mental health and emotional wellbeing support
and addressing the needs of children who are looked after or excluded from
school. They are also responsible for working with others to safeguard children
and all their work is in line with Every Child Matters,
Change for Children principles.
Health Visitors
Health visitors are usually based in GP practices they support the under fives and their families and elderly patients. Their role includes provision of a screening service, health promotional programmes such as smoking cessation, work with the elderly and other groups such as teenagers. Their work brings them in close contact with paediatricians, the Children and Young People's Directorate, voluntary agencies and the Child Health Service.
Administrative staff
A team of administrative staff play a valuable role in supporting health workers to provide an effective service to the patients and clients
