Community Nurses are based at the practice.

The community nursing team visit patients at home and in residential care homes who are unable to visit the practice for medical/mobility reasons. They provide increasingly complex care for patients and support for family members.

The Community Nursing Service may visit patients every day or more than once a day, offering help, advice and support. Community Nurses also work closely with other groups, such as the social services, voluntary agencies and other NHS organisations and help to provide and co-ordinate care.

The Community Nursing Services include:

• Promoting health and well-being and patient empowerment in living independently/coping with a chronic disease
• Undertake nursing assessments for patients in need of continuing health care funding to support long-term support and intervention
• Providing information and support to families and carers, ensuring carer needs are also assessed and recognised and informing them of how to access support
• Assessment, management and prevention of leg ulcers
• Promotion of continence and the management of incontinence via the Continence Care Pathway - includes the care and management of indwelling catheters, supra-pubic and urethral catheters
• Wound management
• Pain management and symptom control in palliative and terminal care and chronic disease management
• Support the Nursing care for patients who may have complex care needs e.g. tracheostomy care
• Bereavement support to families and carers
• Education in self-medication

The Community Nurses can be contacted on 01686 668152

Please note they are not employed by the practice. 

All Health Visitors are qualified nurses and/or midwives, who go on to do additional specialist Health Visitor training.

Health Visitors will offer the ‘Healthy Child Wales Programme’ to all children and families in Powys.  This involves seeing your health visitor at key stages throughout your child’s early years when the Health Visitor will check that all is well with both your child and yourself and be able to offer any advice and support that will enhance your child’s health and developmental potential.

Health Visitors also provide very practical advice and support on the following:

• The promotion of breast feeding
• Infant and child nutrition
• The growth and development of a child
• Supporting the parent-infant relationship
• The management of behaviour e.g. sleep, toilet training, feeding and behaviour concerns
• The prevention and management of illness
• Accident prevention and safety
• The management of a child’s long term health condition
• Play, speech and language support
• Promotion of immunisations
• The support of children in need or at risk of harm
• Relationship problems e.g. domestic violence, family breakdown
• Emotional health difficulties e.g antenatal and postnatal depression and anxiety
• Stopping smoking
• Promoting public health messages
• Nurse prescribing

Health Visitors work closely with Midwives, General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, the Community Paediatric Team, Speech and Language Therapists, School Nurses, Social Workers, Pre-Schools, Nurseries, Action 4 Children and The Flying Start Team to ensure all of your child’s needs are met.

They can be contacted on 01686 617 480 (Newtown) or 01938 555137 (Welshpool).