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Lia Baldock

Lia Baldock

Registered Nursing Associate and Registered Nurse Degree Apprentice at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, working in Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward teams in East Sussex.

Sep 18, 2026

MartynHOST
7:51
So tell me a bit about that.
7:53
Yeah.
7:53
So the service obviously has urgent community response.
7:55
We do a two-hour urgent response to things like pot catheters or falls assessments, physical assessment, urgent bloods from a GP for a patient that can't get in or if a patient just needs to be supported somehow.
8:08
UCR and Virtual Ward has built up a variety of different teams from nursing professionals, including healthcare assistants and nurse associates.
8:16
to physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians.
8:19
It's led by a GP for the virtual ward.

13 MINS LATER

MartynHOST
21:41
So has becoming an RDNA changed how you kind of view the nursing associate role?

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