The Enfield District Nursing team provides a broad range of nursing services, working closely with multidisciplinary teams in the primary, secondary, community and social care systems.

The team provides:

• holistic assessments (including telephone assessments)
• scheduled and unscheduled care
• case management
• treatment and symptom management for acute conditions
• palliative care and end-of-life care
• wound care management
• pressure area care, including assessment for equipment and manual handling requirements
• medicines management, including chemotherapy, Hickman and PCC lines following individual patient assessment and including the teaching of patients and carers
• management and education of appropriate specialist feeding regimes
• continence services, including assessment, management and advice to those with indwelling catheters
• health education and health promotion advice.

Patients will be continually assessed and may be referred onto other agencies, as their condition improves.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

• resident of Enfield, or registered with an Enfield GP, and aged 16+.

How to Refer