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Cambridgeshire Service Directory
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Adult Speech and Language Therapy
To assess, diagnose and treat adults referred with speech, language or swallowing disorders on an in-patient, out-patient and domiciliary basis (including telephone advice) and to support their families and carers.
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Assistive Technology and Telehealthcare
This service provides a range of technological devices to support people and their carers to address challenges to everyday living and enhance their independence, from the most simplistic pill reminder to the more sophisticated Activity Data Monitoring systems.
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Brookfields Hospital
Brookfields Hospital is a well-established and valued community hospital in the heart of Cambridge City.
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Brookfields Hospital - Lord Byron Ward
The inpatient service is managed as part of the inpatient service. Referred patients are usually older adults with complex long term conditions and those who need a level of rehabilitation or nursing care which cannot be provided within their own homes.
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Cambridge Access Surgery
The Surgery is staffed by doctors, nurses and administrative staff, who work closely with other agencies in the same building e.g. CRI Street and Mental Health Outreach Team and based elsewhere (housing, hostels, night shelter, mental health teams, drug and alcohol services etc) to provide a comprehensive service for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
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Care Services in Extra Care and Sheltered Housing
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust administers contracts for and provides services at extra care sheltered housing
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Carers Support Team
The Carers Support Team offer information and support to all informal adult carers across Cambridgeshire.
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Children's Chronic Fatigue Service
Community Children’s Nursing Team supports children and young people with palliative, chronic, complex and acute health needs in Cambridgeshire.
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Children's Community Nursing Team
The service aims to provide direct nursing care to children and young people from birth to 16 years of age (19 if in full time special education) in their own homes. Family and parental support, including teaching of specific care required to maintain the child at home wherever it is safe to do so is also provided.
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Children's Continuing Care
The following services are available to children with continuing and complex health care needs.
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Children's Early Support Team
Early support is being developed across the county in partnership with the County Council’s Office for Children and Young People’s Services (OCYPS) and others.
The aim of the service is to provide co-ordination for the referral, assessment and continued care of families who have a child with a complex need or disability under the age of 5 years.
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Children's Health Visiting
The service is provided to families/carers with children aged 0-5 years of age registered with GPs in Cambridgeshire and is delivered on both an individualised basis and as a group approach through clinics, working in GP surgeries and other settings.
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Children's Inpatient Services - Holly Ward
The Trust provides children's inpatient services on Holly Ward, based in the Children's Unit on the Hinchingbrooke Hospital site. Holly Ward is a 25 bedded paediatric unit open to 0-16 year olds (or up to 17 years of age if in full-time education). We are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We aim to provide an appropriate child and family friendly environment and high quality, evidence based care.
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Children's Occupational Therapy
Children and young people aged 0-16 (19 years old if attending a special school) receive an integrated health and social care occupational therapy service.
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Children's Outpatients Service
The Trust provides a range of child and family friendly outpatient services in the Children's Unit on the Hinchingbrooke Hospital site.
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Children's Physiotherapy
Paediatric Physiotherapists are members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy who work specifically with children as part of a team of other children’s specialists. ‘Paediatric’ means ‘working with children’.
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Children's Speech and Language Therapy
The aim of this service is to provide comprehensive packages of care for children and young people up to school leaving date who have difficulties with speech, language, communication and/or swallowing
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Children's Vision Screening
Our service offers eye tests to all three and a half year old children in the Cambridgeshire area.
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Chlamydia Screening
The Chlamydia Screening Programme is for young people aged 15 to 24 years of age.
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Colorectal and Stoma Care Nursing Service
This nurse led service provides counselling, support and symptom management for all patients registered with GPs in the Huntingdon area with ostomies and/or other bowel disorders. The service is provided by face-to-face contacts in the GP or hospital setting, through home visits or via telephone advice and support
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Community Dental Service
Clinical Dentistry for vulnerable children or adults with special needs.
This service is complementary to dental services provided by NHS dentists in the community. It provides high quality NHS dental services for vulnerable groups often involving work under sedation and general anaesthesia.
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Community Diabetes Services
This service provides nurse led care for people over the age of 18 with Diabetes.
The nurse led team supports both patients and primary care clinicians such as GPs, Practice Nurses and District Nurses in the recognition and management of Diabetes and Diabetes related complications, working as part of an integrated team with hospital based Diabetes Nurse Specialists and Diabetes Consultants.
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Community Heart Failure Echocardiogram Service
The Community Heart Function Echocardiogram Service aims to improve the diagnosis of heart failure closer to the patient’s home. The service primarily aims to improve the care of patients with heart failure and works closely with the other local heart failure services. Clinics are held at four sites spread across Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire villages. Referrals are via GP or other health care professional. Once a referral is received the team's secretary will arrange a suitable venue and time. After the echocardiogram, a report will be sent to the GP or other health care professional who can then discuss this with the patient.
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Community Matrons
Community Matrons provide advanced clinical assessment and intensive case management (co-ordination of care) for patients who have more than one long term condition such as Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease, Arthritis and many more conditions.
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Community Occupational Therapy - Adults (Huntingdon)
Community Occupational Therapists work as members of the integrated locality teams with other therapists, nurses and care managers. Where practicable they are co-located. Therapists are will attend complex case meetings and contribute to a co-ordinated response to urgent referrals
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Community Paediatric Audiology
The Community Paediatric Audiology Service provides assessments and advice to children, families, schools, therapists and others professionals.
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Community Paediatrics
The service is provided by teams led by Community Consultant Paediatricians, who work in partnership with Community Children’s Nurses, Therapists and other Agencies.
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Community Physiotherapy Adults - Huntingdon
Community Physiotherapists work as members of the integrated locality teams with other therapists, nurses and care managers. Where practicable they are co-located. Therapists attend complex case meetings and contribute to a co-ordinated response to an urgent referral.
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Community Stroke Team
The Community Stroke Team assess and treat individuals following stroke, usually on discharge from hospital. The team helps these individuals affected by stroke to return to living as independently as possible in their own homes and to resume their pre-stroke lifestyle or to adapt to an altered future.
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Community Therapy and Day Rehabilitation
Comprehensive community and day rehabilitation and therapy services are provided to meet the rehabilitation needs of people over 18 years old. Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists work with patients to undertake assessments and develop shared goals and rehabilitation/treatment plans to enable people to fulfil their potential.
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Continence Advisory Service
The continence service is provided by continence specialist nurses and women’s health physiotherapists. We provide a community service of continence assessment, treatment and advice for men and women over the age of 18 years. The service works alongside consultants, GP’s, practice nurses, district nurses, other community professionals and therapists.
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Contraception - Cambridge City and South Cambs
Free provision of all contraceptive methods including emergency hormonal contraception, progesterone and combined hormonal contraception and Long acting reversible contraceptive methods (coils, implants and injection)
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Contraception - Fenland
Free provision of all contraceptive methods including emergency hormonal contraception, progesterone and combined hormonal contraception and Long acting reversible contraceptive methods (coils, implants and injection)
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Contraception - Huntingdon
Free provision of all contraceptive methods including emergency hormonal contraception, progesterone and combined hormonal contraception and Long acting reversible contraceptive methods (coils, implants and injection)
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Day Centres Services for Older People
In various locations in Cambridgeshire day care services for over 65s are provided by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust. These are additional to many other day care centres provided by the voluntary and independent sectors in Cambridgeshire.
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Dental - Emergency Out of Hours Service
The Emergency Out of Hours Service is offered to the general public wishing to access emergency dental treatment. This service is carried out by experienced dental practitioners and support staff.
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Dental - Community Dental Services
The Community Dental Service is an extension of GDS services. Patients are seen via referral from multiple sources GDPs, GPs, MH Trust, Keyworkers, Schools and Prisons.
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Dental - Minor Oral Surgery Service
The MOS service is carried out by Specialist Oral Surgeons and Dentists with Special interests in Oral Surgery. The minor oral surgery service accepts direct referrals from GDPs, GPs and secondary care for a variety of surgical procedures outlined in the guidance
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Dental Access Centres
The Dental Access Service is offered to the general public wishing to access emergency dental treatment. This service is carried out by experienced Dental practitioners and support staff.
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Discharge Planning
These joint health and social care teams act as a link between hospital and community services by reviewing the needs of adult hospital patients with complex discharge requirements and buying or ensuring the provision of services to meet these needs in the community.
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District Nursing and Social Care
The district nursing service provides domiciliary nursing service to anyone over the age of 18 within the registered practice population.
Social care service is provided for the resident population aged 65 and over. Re-ablement is short-term support designed to help people become as independent as possible.
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Doddington Hospital
Doddington Community Hospital lies in the heart of the Fens and provides a wide-range of services to local people including thousands of out-patient and diagnostic attendances each year.
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Dreamdrops - Huntingdonshire Children's Charity
Huntingdon Children’s Charity aims to raise money to make a real difference to children and families who use hospital or specialist children’s health facilities in Huntingdonshire.
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Falls Prevention and Bone Health Service
The aim of this service is to reduce the number of falls which result in serious injury and ensure effective treatment and rehabilitation is available for those who have fallen.
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Feet Focus Community Footcare (fee paying foot care service)
Feet Focus Community Footcare is a fee paying foot care service supported by the Podiatry Department, Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust.
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Fenland Anti-Coagulation Nursing Team
Anticoagulation Nurse Specialists see all anticoagulation patients to test and dose patients, in a variety of settings.
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Fenland Cardiac Rehabilitation Service
We are pleased to report that Fenland Cardiac Rehabilitation Service is able to increase the cardiac rehabilitation programmes available to residents of Fenland.
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Heart Failure Nurse Service
We are a community-based service closely linked with the British Heart Foundation, visiting patients with heart failure in their own home or at their local GP surgery.
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Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccination Programme
In 2008 NHS Cambridgeshire commissioned Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to deliver the national HPV Vaccination Programme in schools and colleges across Cambridgeshire.
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Intermediate Care and Out of Hours Service
Intermediate and Out of Hours Care teams provide intermediate care, out of hours nursing and social care, and end of life care.
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Minor Injury Units
This is a walk-in service for patients with minor injuries and a limited range of minor illnesses.
The service is for adults and children.
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Multiple Sclerosis Specialist Nurse
The Multiple Sclerosis (MS) service is currently operational Mon – Thursday and is available to all Adults over the age of 18 years registered with Huntingdonshire GP’s.
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Musculo-skeletal Physiotherapy Service
The Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service provides a modern, innovative, high quality Physiotherapy Service within Primary Care to the local population of Cambridgeshire. Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy involves the management of conditions affecting the spine, peripheral joints, soft tissues and the peripheral nervous system by appropriately qualified health care professionals.
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NeuroPage
NeuroPage is a national memory aid service that sends reminders to individuals via an ordinary pager.
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NHS Direct
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North Cambs Hospital
A wide range of services are provided from this hospital site.
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North Cambs Hospital - Pathology
Blood taking services provided for both inpatients and outpatients.
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North Cambs Hospital - Peckover Endoscopy Unit
This is a very busy unit specialising in diagnostic gastro-intestinal investigations using modern fibreoptic imaging systems.
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North Cambs Hospital - Trafford Ward
The inpatient service is managed as part of the inpatient service. Referred patients are usually older adults with complex long term conditions and those who need a level of rehabilitation or nursing care which cannot be provided within their own homes.
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North Cambs Hospital - Voluntary Services
North Cambs Hospital Ward has had a dedicated Voluntary Service Department since 1991, recruiting and placing volunteers in all areas of the hospital including surgical, medical, palliative care and running the hospital shop and outpatients coffee bar.
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Nutrition and Dietetic Service
The Nutrition and Dietetic Service provides nutrition and dietetic assessment and treatment to clients requiring therapeutic diets and/or nutritional support. Our services are provided in a variety of settings including GP surgeries, medical centres, client’s own home and care homes.
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Oliver Zangwill Centre
People from anywhere in the UK with non-progressive acquired brain injury who have completed rehabilitation with local services and need further highly specialised therapy can use the service.
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Palliative and End of Life Care
This service provides multi-disciplinary specialist palliative care for adults over the age of 18 and their carers
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Parkinson's Disease Specialist Nurses
The Parkinson’s service provides care for adults over the age of 18 with suspected or diagnosed Parkinson’s disease from Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire, East Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon.
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Physio Direct
What is Physio Direct?
Physio Direct is a telephone self referral service which has been set up to provide early advice and management for adults with back/neck/joint problems or following injuries. You do not need a GP referral to access this service.
For further information regarding Physio Direct - see Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy section.
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Podiatry Services
Podiatry is a branch of medicine devoted to the study, diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the foot, ankle and lower leg. Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust's county-wide podiatry services provide care to patients defined as high and medium risk, in order to prevent or reduce hospital admission and possible surgical intervention, to maintain mobility, improve the quality of life and promote independence and the ability to self care.
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Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely
The Princess of Wales Hospital is a former RAF establishment that opened in 1940 and is a much loved community hospital.
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Princess of Wales Hospital, Welney Ward
The inpatient service is managed as part of the inpatient service. Referred patients are usually older adults with complex long term conditions and those who need a level of rehabilitation or nursing care which cannot be provided within their own homes.
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Radiography Service
The service operates from The Princess of Wales hospital Ely, North Cambs hospital Wisbech, and Doddington hospital. Plain film examinations such as chest, spine, knees, hands, feet & pelvis are undertaken at all 3 sites. Ultrasound examinations are undertaken at the Princess of Wales and North Cambs Hospitals.
A majority of patients are referred from GP practices, Minor Treatment centres or Outpatient clinics, although referral from other areas are possible.
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Respiratory Specialist Service
This service is provided by respiratory specialist nurses and physiotherapists offering support for adult patients and their carers who live with long-term respiratory conditions. The teams provide community based element of a service that links with hospital and other health professionals.
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Safeguarding Children
All those who come into contact with children and families in their everyday work, including people who do not have a specific role in relation to child protection, have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, coordinated and quality service, to a range of health professionals across Cambridgeshire to safeguard and promote children's welfare.
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School Nursing Service
This service is provided in the school setting is for children aged ‘rising’ 5 to 16 (or 19 for children with special needs) registered with GPs across Cambridgeshire.
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Sexual Health - On-line booking system
NHS Cambridgeshire in collaboration with Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust launched a new online booking system for sexual health services on Monday 27 April 2009 which means that people in Cambridgeshire will now have the choice to book their sexual health appointments online.
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Sexual Health - School/Further Education based Clinics
Free provision of all contraceptive methods including condoms, pregnancy testing, emergency hormonal contraception, progesterone and combined hormonal contraception and long acting reversible injections.
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Sexual Health - Young People's Clinics
Free provision of all contraceptive methods including condoms, pregnancy testing, emergency hormonal contraception, progesterone and combined hormonal contraception and Long acting reversible contraceptive methods such as implants and injections.
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Sexual Health Services - Cambridge City and South Cambs
Free provision of sexual health screening, diagnosis, treatment and advice.
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Sexual Health Services - Huntingdonshire
Free provision of sexual health screening, diagnosis, treatment and advice including HIV and AIDS
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Sexual Health Services and Contraception - East Cambs and Fenland
Free provision of sexual health screening, diagnosis, treatment and advice
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Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU)
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust runs the Special Care Baby Unit on the Hinchingbrooke Hospital site. Our unit consists of 12 cots including two for babies requiring intensive care and two for babies requiring high dependency care. Our unit is staffed by doctors and nurses with specialist skills and experience in looking after premature and sick babies.
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Special Needs School Nursing
This is a nurse-led service that aims to provide safe, professional healthcare guidance to schools for pupils aged 4 – 19 with special needs including those with profound disabilities and complex health needs.
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Specialist Neuro Rehab Services
These county-wide specialist neurological rehabilitation services are available to all patients/clients over the age of 16-19 (dependent on school leaving age) who have a complex neurological condition. This may include patients with neurological conditions that have a sudden onset such as stroke or acquired brain injury, as well as those that have chronic, long term and progressive conditions such as multiple sclerosis.
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Tissue Viability Service
The Tissue viability nurses have all attended courses and obtained qualification in prevention and management of wounds. This service provide holistic assessment and management of patients at risk of developing complex wounds or with established complex wounds requiring specialist intervention.
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Transitions Healthcare Coordinator
Community Children’s Nursing Team supports children and young people with palliative, chronic, complex and acute health needs in Cambridgeshire.
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Universal Child Health
This is an administrative service to create and maintain an electronic child health information system to support the delivery of universal elements of the Health Child Programme (HCP).
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Weigh2Go - Weight Management Service
Weigh2go is a new weight loss programme for people living in Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire. It is a free service and runs over a 12 week period. Appointments will be on a one-to-one basis and will provide individual weight loss advice and information tailored to lifestyle.
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