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Primary Health Care Team
We work closely with other healthcare professionals who are part of our Primary Health Care Team working in the community, such as the district nursing team, midwives and health visitors. These services are provided by the East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust (PCT) and are based at Ashdown Health Centre, 01342 823121. If you have an illness or incapacity that means that you need nursing care in your own home, the district nurse will visit you. Patients who are likely to benefit from this service include the housebound, the elderly, people with a terminal illness, and those who have recently been discharged from hospital. District nurses provide wound care, palliative care, continence advice, health promotion advice and advice on co-ordinating care packages. If you move permanently into a care home locally, the district nurse may be able to continue your care. Your GP may also be willing to continue to care for you, or a number of GPs may provide services for the residents of local care homes.
Midwives hold regular clinics at the birthing centre at Crowborough Hospital and at Hartfield Surgery
Health Visitors will make contact with relevant families.