Luton Adults Community Health Services

Luton At Home First help support people who are at increased risk of emergency hospital admission. It includes intensive case management and integrated rapid response services, led by a lead professional involved in your care.

Luton Adults Rapid Response Nursing Team provides acute (short term) medical and nursing care in patients own homes, residential care homes for the elderly or an intermediate care setting.

The anticoagulant clinic is led by the community nurses. This is an easily accessible service for the monitoring and dosing of patients taking oral anticoagulant medication. This service is for adults registered to a Luton GP.

Our Luton Cancer Service helps support all Luton patients with a cancer diagnosis. Our team will help support you with a range of concerns, including symptom management, education and emotional, psychological, social and spiritual needs. This is delivered jointly with the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Keech Hospice, GPs and other professionals.

Community Nutrition and Dietetics Service assesses and provides practical evidenced based dietary advice to help people understand the impact of diet on their health and well-being, helping people live longer, healthier lives.

Luton Community Matrons and District Nursing Service provides nursing treatment and care to the people in Luton. Our team work closely with all of the services involved in your care, to help you stay well and living comfortably at home.

Luton Community Matron Specialist Dementia Care Service focuses on post-diagnosis support for people living with dementia and their families or carers, planning for future care and palliative or end of life care.

Luton Community Respiratory Services is a multidisciplinary team of specialists who are passionate about providing excellent, evidence-based care to those with long-term respiratory conditions.

Luton Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Service helps patients with suspected DVT.

Luton Falls Prevention Service prevents unnecessary admissions to hospital following a fall or assessment for falls prevention.

Integrated Discharge Team have the lead for admission avoidance in the role of GP liaison by discussing with referrers patients who may require a same day assessment by the acute trust

Luton Heart Failure Service provides support and monitoring for patients with a diagnosis of left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

Luton Integrated Community Diabetes Service help to optimise diabetes management and reduce risk of diabetes related complications. The service runs specialist diabetes clinics and promotes diabetes education programmes.

Luton Tuberculosis (TB) Nursing Service provides a service to reduce the spread of adverse health outcomes of TB and to control infection and disease within the local diverse community.

Luton Palliative Care Service is for people who require end of life care or have advanced disease.

The pharmacy technicians receive referrals from health or care professionals to support patients with their medications.

Luton Phlebotomy Service is based at the Luton Treatment Centre. We provide a high quality standard of phlebotomy to the adult population of Luton residents registered with a Luton GP.

The Tissue Viability Service aims to support in the management of complex wounds, particularly the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.

Virtual wards allow clinically assessed patients to get the care they need safely, where they feel most comfortable: at home. It’s sometimes called 'hospital at home'.