Neighbourhood nursing

About the team

The neighbourhood nursing teams provide nursing care for patients, aged 18 and over who are housebound within the Medway area, delivering a range of personalised care and treatment to those with complex and long term conditions, supporting people to stay safe and well at home. A housebound patient is defined as ‘a patient to whom the person providing nursing care would normally offer home visits as this is the only practical means of enabling the patient to access the service ‘face-to-face’. A patient is not housebound if s/he is able to leave their home environment with minimal assistance, for example unassisted/assisted visits to a hairdresser or supermarket.

We are healthcare professionals, skilled in caring for people in their own homes:

These include:

• Clinical leads
• Neighbourhood nurses
• Nurse associates
• Coaches
• Registered Nursing Associates
• Health care assistants
• Phlebotomists (who take blood).
• Neighbourhood Nurse practitioners

The following form is for use by healthcare professionals only:

SBAR referral form