NHS: The front-line nurses keeping patients out of hospital

Name: NHS: The front-line nurses keeping patients out of hospital
Uploaded: 2017-11-20T22:53:08.000Z
Duration: 1 min 32 s
Description: District nurses help keep patients out of hospital, but in England numbers have halved since 2010.

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District nurses help ease the pressure on hospitals by caring for patients at home, but their numbers in England have dropped by half since 2010.

The BBC spent time with community nurse Temba Ndigiru in Leeds.

Health

20 November 2017