Nurse-led Services: Community Nursing Service

Christina Morrison, Lead Nurse Community Nursing
Email: christina.morrison@nhs.scot
Tel. (01851) 702997

Senior Charge Nurses

Lewis & Harris

Sonya Street (East Team)
Janet Cameron (West Team)
Joyce King (South Team)

Health Centre
Springfield road
Stornoway
Isle of Lewis
HS1 2PS
Tel. 01851 763306
Email: sonya.street@nhs.scot
Email: janet.cameron2@nhs.scot
Email: joyce.king@nhs.scot

Uist & Barra

Christine MacIntyre (Uist & Benbecula Team / Unscheduled Care Nurses)
Balivanich Community Clinic
Isle of Benbecula
HS7 5LA
Tel. 01870 602266

Email: christine.macintyre@nhs.scot

Community Nursing teams consist of skilled nurses who have responsibility for the assessment, planning, provision and evaluation of appropriate programmes of nursing, anticipatory care and case management.

Some teams are aligned to a GP Practice while others may be geographically located, caring for patients from more than one GP Practice.

Community Unscheduled Care Nurse (CUCN) provide an out of hours service to support the GPs and housebound patients and/or patients at home.

• Patients who are housebound and unable to get to GP surgeries.
• Patients who require daily IV antibiotics.

We offer:

• 24 hour nursing services across the Western Isles
• an individual assessment of patient need, implementation and evaluation of prescribed care
• completion of a single shared assessment and referral to other agencies
• long-term condition management, education and self management support
• wound assessment and treatment
• promotion of continence; assessment and treatment of incontinence and, if appropriate prescription of continence aids
• palliative and end of life care, family support
• administration of specific/ specialised treatments such as intravenous antibiotic therapy at home, depending on an individual assessment
• anticipatory care / rehabilitation
• support and education of family and /or formal carers
• out-of-hours nursing care e.g. crisis and end of life intervention
• complex or acute care at home
• health promotion and lifestyle advice.

The service provides home visits as appropriate, mainly to housebound patients.

Patients can be referred by:

• other health professionals e.g. from hospital or GP surgery
• the patient themselves, their family or friend
• social work and homecare services.

Community Nursing

Community nursing teams in Lewis work 08.30am-4.30pm seven days a week.  There is a nurse on duty on the Twilight shift within each area from 12 30pm-8.30pm Monday to Friday.

Please note that occasionally due to sickness and staffing issues the Twilight shift 12.30pm-8.30pm may have to be cancelled at short notice. Cover will be provided by one of the team doing an on-call shift until 8pm.

Contact can be made through Western Isles Hospital between 4.30pm-8.30pm Monday to Friday via (01851) 704704. During Saturday to Sunday please contact NHS24, freephone 111.

Community Unscheduled Care Nurse (CUCN)

The CUCN works from 8pm–8.30am at the Western Isles Hospital and can be contacted through NHS24 freephone 111.

There is also a CUCN on duty from 12.30pm-8.30pm Saturday to Sunday and Public Holidays who supports the GP with unscheduled care work.

Community Nurses work from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday and also provide out-of-hours on-call. 

Out-of-hours please contact NHS24 via freephone 111 or via the GP on call.

Lewis & Harris

Uist and Benbecula

Barra

• NHS inform
• NHS24  or tel. 111