[jaysay]

As most of you know I recently spent a few days in dock, and being a chronic chest patient I am under the supervision of the COPD team and yesterday had an home visit from a respiratory nurse, just to check that everything was okay. During the visit she mention that there are community matrons who look after patients with chronic disorders such as mine, in their own homes. I have to say that I had never heard of this before, but was very interested to say the least. It appears that they keep teir eyes on people an are able to write prescriptions for anti biotics ect, and in a lot of cases prevent unnecessary hospital admitions and at the same time taking the strain of the doctors. To me this is a great idea, anything that averts a trip to the Royal will do for me, as I do not like the thought of to many hospital stays.