district nurse

noun

1. (in Britain) a nurse employed within the National Health Service to attend patients in a particular area, usually by visiting them in their own homes

Example Sentences

Mrs Keir worked as a ward sister and district nurse and lived in Llansteffan independently until just before her 100th birthday.

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Thompson's parents had both moved to East Ham in east London from Jamaica as part of the Windrush generation in the late 1940s, her father becoming a forklift driver and her mother a district nurse.

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In the streets around Craigmillar, district nurse Kaye Nicol makes calls to local housebound patients.

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"The first week there was nothing and the second week my understanding is a physio did come once and a district nurse came once," said Ms Slade.

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"We try and direct people to the most appropriate care, whether that's back to the GP, a district nurse, or acute mental health services," he said.

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