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How a Community Matron can help you with your long term condition

This leaflet explains how people with a serious long term condition or a complex range of conditions are now being offered the chance of support from a community matron - a senior nurse who will not only provide your nursing care, but will also plan and co-ordinate ways of meeting all your health and social care needs. The leaflet gives information on how people can benefit from the help of a community matron and who is eligible for it.