Nurses – Provide care and teach the patients how to best care for your health needs e.g. medication management, wound management, etc.
Physiotherapists –Work to improve your physical wellbeing through movement and exercise as well as identify mobility aids.
Occupational therapists - Occupational therapy aims to improve patient’s ability to do everyday tasks if you're having difficulties. This can include offering strategies and/or aids.
Care Navigators – To coordinate the support you receive by working closely with everyone involved in your care and treatment. This can include social services and befriending services.
Clinical psychologist – Psychologists work with colleagues to consider patients emotional wellbeing and help with concerns that might get in the way of you achieving your rehab goals
Mental Health Nurse – They can assess any concerns the patient or their family has about the patients memory, mood or mental health and they also liaise with mental health services and the memory clinic if required
Tower Hamlets Community Health Services
Please note: some Tower Hamlets community health services are provided by Barts NHS Trust. They are listed, with links, below.
Tower Hamlets Community Health Services provide high quality patient care and services to the residents of Tower Hamlets. The service is provided on a locality basis for District Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in four Extended Primary Care Teams. Continence, Continuing Care and Podiatry services, Frailty Assessment Clinic, Rapid Response Team, and Community Intermediate Care Team are provided on a Borough wide basis. TH CHS aim to ensure that the residents of Tower Hamlets are offered high quality whole person care, including joined up mental health and physical health support. All Services endeavor to provide care that enables residents to not just recover but help in living well with long term conditions with good quality care and as independently as possible.
Visit the Tower Hamlets Community Health Service page for service users, friends, family & carers here.
Grove Building
Mile End Hospital
London
E26LL
United Kingdom
Admission Avoidance & Discharge Team (Tower Hamlets Community Health Service)
Advanced Care Planning Team (Tower Hamlets Community Health Services)
Care Navigation Team (Tower Hamlets Community Health Services)
Continence Service (Tower Hamlets Community Health Service)
Continuing Health Care Service (Tower Hamlets Community Health Service)
Extended Primary Health Care Teams (Tower Hamlets)
Falls Pick Up Service (Tower Hamlets Community Health Service)
Foot Health team (Tower Hamlets Community Health Service)
Integrated Occupational Therapy (Tower Hamlets)
Triage & Assessment team - Tower Hamlets Community Health Services