Long Term Conditions Centre
The Long Term Conditions Centre at Fenwick2 offers NHS services in stroke care, Parkinson's disease care, heart failure support and diabetes care, usually for patients who have been referred.
Services include:
Stroke Care
Raj Vaithilingam is the Stroke Co-ordinator for the New Forest providing support and referral to a full rehabilitation and support service for people who have had a stroke. His role includes offering support, advice and information about stroke-related illness, reviewing patients who have had a stroke, making recommendations to appropriate agencies, and offering a carer awareness and stroke awareness education programme.
Raj can be contacted on 023 8028 6402.
Parkinson's Disease Care
Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist Sheena Morgan sees people either at home or in nurse-led specialist clinics running at Hythe, Fenwick2, Lymington or Milford on Sea. She offers Parkinson's Disease nursing knowledge, working closely with patients, carers, consultants, general practitioners, therapists and social services to maximise control of the condition and enable patients to maintain their quality of life.
Contact Sheena on 023 8028 6404 between 8.30am and 10.30am.
Heart Failure Support
Heart Failure Nurse Specialist, Tracy Cooper, delivers this service across much of the New Forest. Tracy works with patients referred from hospitals or New Forest GPs. She only deals with patients who have been referred and who have an appropriate diagnosis of left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
Tracy can be contacted between 09.00am and 4.30pm on 023 8028 6405.
Diabetes Care
The four part-time Diabetes Specialist Nurses for the Community, based at Fenwick2, see a variety of patients with both Type1 and Type 2 diabetes. The team provided Type 1 and 2 group education sessions All patients are referred either from GPs or hospitals. Patients are those who need to be put on insulin or who need to change from one type of insulin to another.
The Diabetes Specialist Nurses can be contacted on 023 8028 6401.
