Integrated working between residential care homes and primary care: a survey of care homes in England

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Reported use of community services in the previous 6 months, (either to individual residents or on a full care home basis), ranked by percentage of care homes (N = 89)

Rank	Professional or Service	n	%
1	District Nurse	84	94.4
2	Optician	81	91.0
3	Community Psychiatric Nurse	78	87.6
4	Chiropody, Podiatry	73	82.0
5	Continence service	66	74.2
	Pharmacist	66	74.2
7	Dentist	65	73.0
8	Physiotherapist	63	70.8
9	Occupational therapist	59	66.3
10	Speech and Language therapist	58	65.2
	Old age psychiatrist	58	65.2
12	Dietician	53	59.6
13	Hearing services	51	57.3
14	Practice nurse	45	50.6
15	Specialist nurse, e.g. older people, diabetes	42	47.2
16	Macmillan nurse	39	43.8
17	Falls, exercise coordinator	35	39.3
18	Consultant geriatrician	33	37.1
19	Intermediate care team	30	33.7
20	Clinical psychologist	25	28.1
21	Community matron	25	28.1
22	Hospice team	22	24.7
23	Care home support team	18	20.2
24	Marie Curie nurse	12	13.5
25	Health visitor	9	10.1
26	Admirals nurse	4	4.5
27	Other	4	4.5
Homes using any palliative service (Macmillan, Marie Curie, or Hospice team)		43	48.3

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