Integrated Care Teams

This section provides information about integrated care teams that provide a range of health and social care services including community nursing for people living in south and east Belfast.  If you live in north or west Belfast, find out about your community nursing services here.

Many people need both health and social care support. In Integrated Care Teams a range of health and social care staff work together  to offer patients a better quality service, with easier access to the services required.  There are five Integrated Care Teams based in south and east Belfast.  Treatment and Services are provided through district nursing, Occupational Therapy, Care Management and Social Care staff.  Nursing services are available 24 hours a day, every day and include a rapid response service for GPs and Emergency Departments.

  • District Nursing
    District Nurses in the Integrated Teams provide nursing care, support and advice for individuals, carers, families and the wider population. They are based in five teams and aligned to a GP Practice in a defined area and provide 24 hour care to housebound patients
  • Occupational Therapy
    Occupational Therapists in the Integrated Teams provide a service to older people and those with a physical disability, incorporating assessment and treatment in client’s own home, residential or nursing home to enable people to live as independently as possible
  • Care Management
    Care Managers in the Integrated Care Teams provide an assessment for those with complex needs, requiring a high level of support, either at home or in a residential or nursing home.
  • Social Work
    Social Work staff in the Integrated Teams provide an assessment for those with complex social needs and provide social services to support patients with such need.
  • Clinical Support Team (Nursing)
    This Nursing Team completes Clinical Investigations, Post-operative wound checks and follow up dressings, suture/clip removal, routine injections and equipment and continence monitoring.

 

 

How to Access the Service:

You can refer yourself or be referred by a family member, GP. or by other health professional. 

All referrals are handled centrally by a Call Management Centre 90 565565 which is available 24 hours a day

If you have any general enquiries, or are already a patient of this service, please contact the appropriate team directly on one of the numbers listed below.

Locations

Team
Location

General Enquiries
Existing Patients

New Referrals
and Urgent Requests

Bradbury ICT
Bradbury Centre

Tel 028 9091 2090

Call Management Centre
028 9056 5565

Knockbreda ICT
Knockbreda Centre

Tel 028 9063 1270

Call Management Centre
028 9056 5565

Dundonald ICT
Arches Centre

Tel 028 9056 3370

Call Management Centre
028 9056 5565

Inner Arches ICT
Arches Centre

Tel 028 9056 3330

Call Management Centre
028 9056 5565