Practice Staff

What is a Community and Care Coordinator?

A Community and Care Coordinator is based in your local GP Practice. They assist patients across all age groups in need of help, support and advice by signposting them to other useful services and activities. Community and Care Coordinators work with the NHS, the Council and Voluntary Services and have become local experts on what’s happening in your community. They can help you to keep socially active and maintain your independence.

Click here for a Leaflet about the role of Community & Care Co-ordinators.

Community Nurses

The Community Nurses provide Nursing Care and advice to patients in their own homes.  They liaise with Hospitals and other Specialised Nurses and Services such as Home Care, Social Services, The Macmillan Unit and Chiropody.  They can arrange extra support for patients who require long-term care.

Health Visitors

A Health Visitor is concerned with the health and well-being of families.  Health Promotion, early detection of ill health and monitoring of normal growth and development are her responsibility, with particular reference to mothers, babies and the under 5’s.   The Health Visitor liaises closely with the GP’s, other members of the nursing team and professions allied to medicine, such as Social Workers, Speech Therapists and Pre-School Teacher Counsellors.  The Health Visitor has specialist knowledge of the facilities and resources available for families and children in the area.

Community Midwives

The Midwives work closely with the Doctors in providing care for all expectant mothers.  In addition to running Ante-Natal clinics, they work with the Health Visitor in helping to prepare couples for the birth and care of their baby.  The same Midwives will deliver mothers who wish to have their babies at home or in the Maternity Unit and continue to care for them whilst in that hospital and at home afterwards.