District Nurses work manage care within the community and lead teams of community nurses and support workers.[1] The role requires registered nurses to take a NMC approved specialist practitioner course.[2] Duties generally include visiting house-bound patients and providing advice and care such as palliative care, wound management, catheter and continence care and medication support. Their work involves both follow-up care for recently discharged hospital inpatients and longer-term care for chronically ill patients who may be referred by many other services, as well as working collaboratively with general practitioners in preventing unnecessary or avoidable hospital admissions.