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HOME VISITING

The Home Visiting Service supports Lewisham GP Practices through delivering rapid home visits to housebound patients in order to support duty GP’s.

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Our Home Visiting Team are an experienced team of paramedics, can offer the following:

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  • Home Visits for permanently housebound patients (acute issues).

  • Home Visits for temporarily housebound patients (acute issues).

  • QOF reviews (Asthma, COPD and Hypertension) and chronic disease management for housebound patients.

  • Welfare checks for vulnerable housebound patients.


​Referral Criteria:

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  • Over-18s ONLY

  • Housebound (Temporarily or Permanent)

  • Registered at a Borough of Lewisham GP Practice.

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Booking 

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Please note you are placing your patient on a home visiting waiting list, not booking a timed appointment. The home visiting team will triage the urgency and send a clinician to the patient in a timeline that is suitable. The patient will be called and informed about the time of the clinician’s arrival to their home.

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Home Visiting: About
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