Community Nurse team

With nearly one quarter of our patients choosing to be supported at home, our team of 10 whole-time equivalent Community Clinical Nurse Specialists work closely with patients and carers, offering them support in their own homes.

What can we offer?

• •-          advice on pain and symptom control
• •-          emotional and spiritual support
• •-          practical support
• •-          support for family and loved ones

Following referral from your GP or consultant, each patient is visited by one of our Community Clinical Nurse Specialists and a care package is agreed. Visits from our nurses can be reassuring and of great comfort to patients and their families.

Each community nurse is linked to a GP surgery within a particular area. As a team they work alongside 22 GP practices other health and social care colleagues in primary, secondary and tertiary settings throughout North Devon.

Over the last year our dedicated Community Clinical Nurse Specialists made over 5,200 visits to people in their own homes.

Travelling throughout North Devon every day, they cover over 1000 square miles, from Stratton to Lynton, Ilfracombe to
Okehampton and Morwenstowe to Withypool. Last year alone, they journeyed over 45,000 miles, each travelling up to 100 miles
in a single day to reach those in need.

To find out more about this service or the nurse working in your particular area, please contact us by clicking here.