Community nurses — Wellington, Hutt and Kapiti
District nurses and community health services provide care to people in their homes or at community clinics throughout Wellington, Hutt and Kapiti.
Contact us
For the community health service, contact:
- Wellington Regional Hospital — phone 04 385 5821
- Hutt Hospital — phone 04 570 9148
- Kenepuru Community Hospital — phone 04 918 2011
- Kāpiti Health Centre —phone 04 903 0224
Where to find us
Wellington Regional Hospital
Street address:
Ewart Building
2b Coromandel Street
Newtown 6021
Hutt Hospital
Street address:
638 High Street
Boulcott
Lower Hutt 5010
Kenepuru Community Hospital
Street address:
16 Hospital Drive
Porirua 5022
Kenepuru Community Hospital — Google Maps
Kapiti Health Centre
Street address:
Warrimoo Street
Paraparaumu 5032
Kapiti Health Centre — Google Maps
Hours
Operating hours are 8am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday.
After hours are:
- 4:30pm to 10pm, Monday to Friday
- 8am to 4:30pm, Saturday and Sunday.
Services we provide
District nurses provide specialist nursing care, including:
- home visits, provided to housebound patients
- nursing clinics for people who are not housebound.
Once you have been referred to the community nursing service, a nurse will be in touch to assess your nursing care needs. You will either receive visits at home or be asked to attend the clinic.
You will be discharged from the service when:
- you have finished your plan of care
- you no longer require specialist nursing care
- when your needs can be met by your healthcare provider.
If you are finding it difficult to attend the clinic, discuss this with your nurse.
At-home care
Services provided at home include:
- specialist nursing care to prevent a hospital admission or follow-up support for patients after they leave hospital — this includes caring for people who have had a stoma, or tracheostomy
- home-based chemotherapy services
- assessment and treatment of complex and chronic wounds — for example Doppler assessments or compression bandaging
- compression bandaging
- venous leg ulcer care
- Doppler assessment
- administering medication at home
- assessing respiratory conditions and support managing chronic respiratory disease, including providing oxygen to be used at home and other support to improve lung function
- help with eating through feeding tubes
- care of patients with long-term conditions
- continence assessment and treatments, including bladder scanning and treatment of children with chronic bed wetting conditions
- palliative care services, in partnership with Mary Potter Hospice
- short-term home support services, personal care and home help.
- Meals on Wheels
- IV therapy.
There is no fee for home-based care provided by our district nurses.
Referral information
Care is provided based on a needs assessment.
A referral for this service can come from a healthcare provider, or you may be referred after hospital admission.
Patient information
- Administering subcutaneous (under the skin) medication bolus — patient information
- Adult tracheostomy care — patient information
- Bedwetting — parent or caregiver information
- Clean intermittent self catheterisation (men) — patient information
- Clean intermittent self catheterisation (women) — patient information
- Compression bandaging — patient information
- Doppler assessment — patient information
- Looking after your catheter at home (supra-pubic or urethral) — patient information
- Looking after your new stoma — discharge information
- Loperamide (Imodium) for adult patients — patient information
- Home support services — patient information
- How to change your wound dressing — patient information
- Managing your uridome at home— patient information
- Negative pressure wound therapy— patient information
- Nursing clinic — patient information
- Oxygen therapy at home — patient or carer information
- Personal care and home help — patient information
- Pressure injury prevention — patient information
- Self-administering Fentanyl patches — patient information
- Self-administration of an elastomeric infusor via a peripherally inserted central catheter — information for community patients
- Trial removal of catheter— patient information
- Urostomy — discharge information
- Venous leg ulcer care — patient information