Community Health Services

Croydon Community Health Services (CCHS) provides a range of services in local people’s homes and in the community, based at clinics all over Croydon.

Patients are referred for many services by their GP or other health professional, or after a stay in hospital.

The full range of CCHS services includes:

Services for Adults

• A&E liaison team
• Adult therapies including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and podiatry
• District nursing
• Community matrons and virtual wards
• Croydon intermediate care services
• Diabetes services
• Homeless health
• Health visiting for older people
• Heart failure service
• Learning disabilities
• Neurological and stroke services
• Nurse specialists for diabetes, continence, cardiac care
• Pulmonary rehabilitation
• Sexual health
• Stop smoking
• Wheelchair service

Services for Children

• Breastfeeding support
• Children’s audiology
• Children's Hospital at Home
• Children's medical services
• Children’s universal services including health visitors and school nurses
• Children's urgent care services
• Children’s therapies including occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy
• Young people's sexual health outreach