Department of Veterans Affairs Community Nursing

Department of Veterans Affairs Community Nursing

Serving Tamworth, Toowoomba, Woy Woy, Gosford, Wyong, Moree, Gunnedah, Armidale and Quirindi since 1990.

About Community Nursing Services

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) provides a variety of in-home and community support programs to assist eligible veterans and war widows/widowers (entitled persons) to continue living in their homes.


Community nursing services are provided to entitled persons to meet their clinical and personal care needs. Entitled persons include veterans and war widows who hold a Gold Card, and veterans with a White Card may be eligible for the service where the condition requiring nursing is accepted by DVA as war-related. 


The aim of the program is to enhance the independence, quality of life and health outcomes of veterans and their widows by avoiding early admission to hospital and/or residential care through access to high-quality community nursing services.


The types of DVA community nursing services that may be provided include:


  • Personal care
  • Wound care 
  • Chronic disease management
  • Medication management
  • Continence management
  • Arranging carer support
  • Making referrals to other Allied Health & community care services as needed
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How Can I Receive DVA Community Nursing?

To receive DVA community nursing, the entitled person must obtain a referral from their GP or the hospital discharge planner. Following this referral, our DVA care coordinator will liaise with you to arrange a convenient time to complete a comprehensive community nursing assessment by a dedicated registered nurse.


PACS offers a wide variety of community nursing services designed to maintain the health and wellbeing of the entitled veteran or widow. The services offered will depend on the client’s assessed individual care needs.


We believe it is important for service and support to be designed and developed around the needs, values and aspirations of the people receiving services and their families.

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