About our service
The District Nursing Service provides clinical assessment, interventions and care planning for patients at home or their normal place of residence, who are aged 18 years and older. The service supports and encourages people with disabilities, long-term conditions and following an acute episode of illness, to recover their health, manage own health and achieve the best possible quality of independent life. District Nursing offer expert nursing care at home to ensure patients are supported to remain in their own home for as long as possible, this will include supporting patients and families to self-care e.g. self-manage eye drops, injections and wound care.
A large part of the District Nursing role is in supporting patients with life limiting illness and actively supporting patients to die at home, if this is their preferred choice. We have a small Palliative Care Respite Team (PCRT) which is a team of Health Care Assistants who provide a sitting service to palliative patients nearing the end of their life this service is offered through the day and overnight on a priority basis.
Our district nursing teams work closely with hospitals, GPs, social services and other healthcare teams involved in our patients care. We also work closely with physiotherapists and occupational therapists, social workers, Macmillan, Specialist Palliative care team and other health care professionals to provide care to meet a wide range of health care needs.
District nurses play a pivotal role in reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and readmissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.
The DN services covers 24 hours per day 7 days per week, 52 weeks per year. The service is delivered from Nine neighbourhood bases throughout Stockport and these bases include:
- Werneth District Nurses- Woodley Health Centre
- Marple District Nurses-Marple Memorial Park
- Heaton/Marple 2 District Nurses – Hazel Grove Health Clinic
- Bramhall District Nurses – Cheadle Hulme Clinic
- Cheadle District Nurses – Gatley Health Centre
- Out of Hours – Kingsgate House
- Victoria District Nurses – Bridgehall Community Centre
- Heaton Central District Nurses – Baker Street
- Tame Valley District Nurses – Baker St
Contact details
Referrals into the service can either be from a GP, another professional or self-referrals.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- District Nursing Service :
- 0161 204 4777
- Opening times:
- 8.00am and 6.00pm
- Evening or Overnight Service:
- 0161 204 4752
The District Nurses work closely with adult social care to provide integrated nursing services to all their patients, they also work collaboratively with the independent and voluntary providers to enhance patient experience and care.
Our Expertise
The District Nursing Services include:
- Promoting health and well-being and patient empowerment in living independently/coping with a chronic disease
- Undertake nursing assessments for patients on admission to the caseload to support their nursing needs whilst promoting shared care with patients and their families.
- 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-administering injections and medications.
- Support the Nursing Care for patients who may have complex care needs.
- Bereavement support to families and carers
- Education in self-medication
How to Use the Service
Accessing the District Nursing Service
All referrals received by the District Nursing Service are assessed in order to confirm and prioritise the need for District Nursing intervention and where necessary signpost people to other services they may need to support self-management.
Each DN team is led by a Specialist Practitioner Nurse who is a trained District Nurse and their team members consist of a skilled mix of staff from Registered Nurses, Nurse Associates, Assistant practitioners and Health Care assistants.
The District Nursing service also provides treatment room services for those patients who are not housebound:
Clinics are held at:
- Brinnington Health Centre
- North Reddish Clinic
- Heaton Moor Clinic
- Hazel Grove Clinic
- Shaw Heath Clinic
- Bramhall Health Centre
- Heald Green Health Centre
- Marple Health Centre
- Woodley Health Centre