Community Advanced Nurse Practitioners offer specialised services in partnership with GPs.
Advanced Nurse Practitioners are highly skilled senior nurses with advanced clinical skills, allowing them to:
- Take a full medical history
- Carry out physical assessments and examinations
- Make a diagnosis and carry out treatment
- Prescribe medicines
- Plan any follow up treatment
- Refer patients for investigations
Advanced Nurse Practitioners enhance the care available to patients and can be found in various settings including care homes and GP Practices. They also visit patients at home by GP referral.