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– having your say on community health services in Ashby West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group is carrying out a review into community health services in Ashby de la Zouch, including Ashby Hospital We want to make sure that patients get the right care, at the right time, in the right place. The review will help us to understand how well the current services meet patients’ needs and whether we are making the best use of resources. This review is part of a larger set of plans to help bring healthcare closer to home, ideally in patients’ own homes or local health centres. Community health services cover a wide variety of healthcare. Overall they refer to care that is not critical or for an emergency, and which can be provided within community settings, such as a community hospital or patients’ homes. For
instance they include care for people with longterm conditions. Another of its familiar functions is outpatient clinics, along with others for specific issues, like sexual health. Community health services are also multi-disciplinary and involve consultant specialists, specialist nurses, district nurses, school nurses, therapists, and others. Currently, Ashby Hospital provides the following: • Outpatient clinics for a variety of conditions • Therapy services for in and outpatients, including physiotherapy and occupational therapy • Specialist clinics for children and young people e.g sexual health, bedwetting
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