Contact the service
- Write to: Central and West Team, Acute Care at Home, Truro Health Park, Infirmary Hill, Truro, TR1 2JA
- Call 01872 246 984
- Email the Central and West Team
Availability
Open 8am to 10pm, 7 days a week.
Open 8am to 10pm, 7 days a week.
The Acute Care at Home Service provides advanced nursing care and support to patients in their own homes. The aim is to prevent an admission or support an early discharge from hospital.
The team is made up of highly qualified, experienced nurses who can provide advanced assessment skills and treatment to patients in their own homes. This will avoid a patient being admitted to an acute setting.
The patient:
Types of conditions that can be managed by the team include:
The team is skilled in providing intensive nursing support at home.
Skills include:
The Acute Care at Home Team is available from 8am to 10pm, 7 days a week.
A co-ordinator is in the office Monday to Friday and there is an answerphone for non-urgent messages. We can also be contacted via the Bodmin switchboard, call 01208 251 300.
We hold weekly ward round meetings where we discuss each of our patient’s with a microbiologist, consultant and advanced specialist clinical pharmacist.
Any health professional can make a referral to the team however, the patient’s GP needs to have assessed community patients within 24-hours of referral. The GP must be prepared to maintain medical responsibility while the patient is treated by the team; or, in the case of out of hours until the patient’s own GP is available.