Podiatrists from Fife Health and Social Care Partnership have stepped in quickly to treat patients in the community who are house bound and require dressings for wounds. This positive action has been able to happen due to collaboration between the service and Community Nursing services whose district nurses would normally treat the more than 100 patients involved.
The Podiatry service has put all non-critical podiatry care on hold so that podiatrists can use their expertise to treat patients and enable nursing colleagues to provide other critical care.
As a service, Community Diabetes Podiatrists are still operating and remain able to provide urgent treatments for the most high-risk patients some of whom may only have a single contact at this time and who may therefore be feeling particularly vulnerable.
