Page updated: 20 Dec 2010
District nursing
The district nursing team is a team of highly trained nurses and support workers who have acquired extended knowledge to provide highly skilled nursing care within the community. The team works in a proactive manner that meets professional standards, is up to date, and is based on clinically effective and evidence-based practice in line with national and local policies, guidelines and protocols
The team provides 24-hour nursing care to housebound patients 365 days a year, in their own home, to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and A&E attendance, and ensure continuity of care. It aims to support, teach and enable patients and carers to achieve independence and self-care by sharing knowledge and skills, and promoting health education, which may involve acting as a patient’s advocate and liaising with other professionals.
The district nursing service assesses patients and carers holistically and plans care to meet health and nursing needs on a continuous basis. This may lead, with patient’s consent, to referrals to other health and social services, including voluntary agencies.
The team works closely with GPs, and is based at eight different clinics across the borough.
There are four clinics in north Trafford:
- Partington Health Centre
- Woodsend Clinic
- The Delamere Centre
- Mitford Street.
The south of Trafford has district nurses in clinics at:
- Firsway Health Centre
- Chapel Road Clinic
- Timperley Health Centre
- Shay Lane Medical Centre.
If you think you, or a family member, needs to be referred to the service, please contact your GP surgery to obtain the telephone number for the district nursing service.
District nurse liaison service
Based at Trafford General Hospital, the service works across the whole Trafford population, assessing people’s needs, regardless of which acute hospital they happen to be in. It assesses patients for nursing or residential care, and arranges continuing healthcare assessments should people need them.
The team aims to ensure people receive the service or support they need on discharge from hospital. It works closely with a number of organisations and agencies across Trafford (both inside and outside of healthcare). This includes a close partnership with social work teams.
The team also ensures that acute eservices are aware of the issues that have led to patient admissions to hospital to prevent their reoccurrence.