Community Services

 

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The District Nurse Service

District Nurses are specially trained to assess nursing need and provide care to patients and their families in their own homes.

They care for a wide range of people, including post-operative surgical patients, people with long-term medical problems and palliative care needs.

The daytime service is available between 08:00 and 16:30.

Telephone: 01865 904814

 

The Health Visitor Service

Health Visitors offer antenatal education and post-natal care to mothers as well as care for children under 5.

They visit babies 10 - 14 days after birth and thereafter see mother and baby at the Child Health Clinic. They offer parenting advice for children up to 18 years and support or referral for post-natal depression.

Telephone: 01865 264967

 

Community Midwife Service

A midwife from the John Radcliffe Hospital shares antenatal care with the doctors. 

She is at the surgery from 08:30 – 17:30 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.