our nurses
Meet your community nurse team
Your local community nurse team complements the care you receive from your hospital stoma nurses and healthcare professionals. Our nurses can visit you at home to provide expert support and advise on how best to live with a stoma.
Do you have a question for our nurse team? Please email [email protected]
Bath & North Somerset
Hazel
Hazel started her career in 1973 in Bristol as a Dental Nurse. After qualifying as a Registered Dental Surgery Assistant she left Bristol in 1975 for Bath to train as a state Registered Nurse.
Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull
Alison
Alison began her nursing career in 1980 working at Stratford on Avon Hospital. In 1984 she transferred to Warwick Hospital and since 1987 has been working in both the hospital and community as a Stoma Care Nurse.
Blackpool
Kim
Kim trained as a Registered General Nurse in 1982. She has over fifteen years’ experience in surgical nursing in the colorectal and urology fields.
Helen
Helen Coulter began her nurse training in 1975 at Belfast City Hospital. She completed both the Registered Sick Children’s Nursing Certificate, and the Orthopaedic Nursing Certificate.
Portsmouth
Claire
Qualified as a registered nurse in 2003 whilst serving in the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps.
Portsmouth
Marta
There are lots of ways your community nurse team can help you. Here are just a few:
- Home visits following your stoma surgery
- Advice and support on how to become more independent
- Guidance on common stoma problems
- Tips on skin care and colostomy irrigation
- Advice on diet, exercise, and travel
- Recommendations for stoma care products that will meet your needs
- Guidance on how to manage your stoma products day to day
- Help with template measurement
- Measurement and fitting of hernia supports
- Advice on disposing of used pouches
If you have a question please ask our nurse