About us
Our community nursing teams are part of our integrated community teams. They provide care to patients in their homes and residential care settings across Derbyshire. Our teams are based in health centres, community hospitals and GP practices and work in geographical patches or localities eg High Peak, South Derbyshire.
A community nursing team may include district nurses, community nurses, healthcare support workers, community matrons, rapid response nurses, wound clinic nurses, and end of life care nurses.
Our rapid response nursing and therapy teams’ priority is to respond to urgent requests for interventions that will help keep patients in their own homes as much as possible.
Community nursing services are provided across Derbyshire in patients’ homes and community residential settings with bases at the following locations;