Haringey Community Health Services
Community Matrons
A service for Haringey residents to help them manage their long-term health conditions.
Who are the Community Matrons?
- Community Matrons are highly skilled and experienced nurses, who specialise in the patient-centred management of long-term health conditions.
- Being patient-centred means that they will ask the person about what is important to them and work with them to plan how to cope better.
- Long-term conditions are health conditions such as heart disease, breathing problems, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. People may have had these illnesses for a long time and find them stressful and difficult to live with
- The community matrons work closely with GPs, hospital doctors and other local health and social care services to ensure that people work together to deliver planned care that supports people to be confident in managing their health.
Who is the service for?
- Haringey residents with a long term health condition, who are likely to have unplanned A & E or hospital attendances.
- People who have more than one active long-term condition, which is treated by their GP, and who would benefit from additional support to understand and manage their health.
What do they do?
- Co-ordinate people’s care in the place they normally live.
- Work with people who have a lot of hospital visits or admissions to help reduce unnecessary hospital attendance.
- Develop a plan of care, to include measures the person could take to avoid a crisis
- Support and inform, in order to improve people’s confidence in managing their health condition.
- Act as a key contact for patients and their families
- Liaise with other agencies and professionals to secure additional support as needed.
Getting in Touch
Community Matrons are based in the same locations as the District Nurses and work closely with them. Potential users should discuss referral to this service with their GP in the first instance.
Central
Bounds Green Health Centre
1A Gordon Road,
London, N11 2PA
t: 020 8889 0961
f: 020 8881 6362
North East
Lordship Lane Clinic
239 Lordship Lane,
London, N17 6AA
t: 020 8365 5910
f: 020 8365 5915
West
Hornsey Central Neighbourhood Health Centre
149 Park Road, London N8 8JL
t: 020 3074 2400
f: 020 3074 2401
South East
Tynemouth Road Health Centre
24 Tynemouth Road
London N15 4RH
t: 020 8275 4000
f: 020 8275 4003
