Community nursing team - adult services
Our community nursing team provides a service for people in the community with acute needs or needs related to chronic illness, who do not need hospitalisation.
Additionally, the community nursing teams work with other healthcare professionals to actively prevent hospital admission so that you can be cared for at home.
Each team is based at either a community hospital or GP surgery and cover a geographical area. However, teams work flexibly to ensure that all areas can be covered.
The community nursing team also works with the local hospices to provide palliative care for those patients with terminal illnesses.
What services are provided?
The service provided is unique to each patient and dependent on patient need; this could include changing of dressings or administering IV drugs. The nursing teams are also able to provide support and advice to patients’ carers and/or family.
What locations do we cover?
Eastern services
Our service is split across East and Mid Devon and Exeter, serving a wide population across our community settings. We often refer to individual areas as 'clusters', which helps us provide the right care, at the right time, in the right setting.
We currently have the following clusters:
- Crediton, Moretonhampstead and Okehampton
- Honiton, Ottery St Mary and Cranbrook
- Exmouth, Woodbury, Budleigh
- Exeter – South and West
- Exeter – Central and East
- Tiverton and Cullompton
- Sidmouth, Seaton and Axminster
Northern services
Our service is split across North Devon and stretches all the way to Bude and Holsworthy, serving a wide population across our community settings. We often refer to individual areas as 'clusters', which helps us provide the right care, at the right time, in the right setting.
We currently have the following clusters:
- Ilfracombe and South Molton
- Barnstaple
- Torridge (Bideford, Northam, Torrington, and Hartland)
- Holsworthy, Bude and Surrounding Villages
How can I be referred?
Please ask you GP or Healthcare Professional to refer you to our service.
For urgent referrals Out of Hours please telephone Devon Doctors on 01382 269467