District nursing teams in Haringey provide 24-hour care, offering services including end of life care, urgent catheterisation within two hours, and specialised clinics such as ambulatory catheter, leg ulcer, twilight, and night services. These services are available across various locations in Haringey and Islington, ensuring comprehensive community care.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

• aged 16+
• housebound*
• eligible for publicly funded healthcare
• resident in the London borough of Haringey.

*An individual does not have to be bedbound to be considered confined to the home. However, the condition of the patient should be such that there exists a normal inability to leave the home and that, consequently, leaving the home would require considerable taxing effort. Long and/or frequent absences will indicate that the patient has the capacity to access healthcare outside the home.

Some ambulatory patients will receive home visits from the service.

These include:

• patients whose nursing needs are best delivered in the home environment (e.g. spinal injury patients needing complex bowel management, immune-compromised patients).

How to Refer