Private Nurse at Home in Plymouth

Plymouth • Devon

NMC-registered private nurses at home in Plymouth

Some needs go beyond personal care and companionship and call for a qualified nurse. A private nurse at home in Plymouth brings clinical skill into familiar surroundings, so a person can receive proper nursing without a hospital stay or a move into a nursing home. Protocol Healthcare Services has spent more than a decade supplying registered nurses, and we bring that clinical standard to families and individuals in Plymouth just as we do everywhere we work. Every nurse we supply is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), so the care is delivered by someone qualified and accountable.

We will always be honest about how we operate. Our offices are in the South of England, so we do not run a branch in Plymouth and the city lies a fair distance to the west of us. What we do run is a genuinely national nursing and staffing service, coordinating vetted, registered professionals wherever they are needed. Every nurse has completed enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training before they start, and a consultant is on hand around the clock, so a family in Plymstock, Mannamead or Peverell gets the same clinical reassurance as one nearer our office.

Clinical care our private nurses provide in Plymouth

• ✓ Medication administration and management
• ✓ Wound care, dressings and pressure-area care
• ✓ Catheter care and continence management
• ✓ Stoma care and support
• ✓ PEG and enteral (tube) feeding
• ✓ Injections and clinical monitoring
• ✓ Post-operative nursing and recovery support
• ✓ Palliative and end-of-life nursing at home

When a private nurse at home makes sense

Families come to us for private nursing in a range of situations. Sometimes it is to manage a long-term condition that needs regular clinical input, such as a complex wound, a catheter or stoma, or PEG feeding. Sometimes it is to make a safe recovery possible at home after surgery, avoiding a longer stay in hospital or a nursing-home placement. And sometimes it is to allow someone to be nursed at the end of their life in their own home, surrounded by the people and places they love, rather than on a ward. Whatever the reason, nursing at home means the clinical care comes to the person, in the comfort of their own home in the terraced streets near the city centre in PL1 or the quieter suburbs of Plympton and Crownhill.

Local knowledge and hospital-to-home nursing

Plymouth is a large, spread-out city, and we arrange private nursing right across it, from the waterfront communities of Stonehouse and the Barbican to Devonport, Stoke and Ford in the west, and out to St Budeaux, Honicknowle, Efford and Estover. A great deal of our nursing work is hospital-to-home: supporting people discharged from Derriford Hospital in Crownhill, the main hospital serving the city and part of University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. After an operation or a complex admission, a private nurse can manage wound care, drains, catheters, pain relief and monitoring at home, so recovery continues safely and the risk of readmission is reduced. We keep GPs and community teams informed throughout, so nursing at home joins up with the wider care around the person.

Palliative and complex nursing at home

Being cared for at home towards the end of life matters enormously to many families, and our nurses provide palliative and end-of-life nursing across Plymouth, including symptom and pain management and practical and emotional support for those around the person. This work often sits alongside our dementia and specialist care and live-in options, so a person can have both day-to-day care and clinical nursing under one coordinated arrangement.

Funding, regulation and getting started

Private nursing is priced on a clinical assessment, because the input required varies so much from one person to the next. Many Plymouth families self-fund, and where needs are primarily health-related, NHS Continuing Healthcare funding may cover nursing at home. Plymouth City Council can also carry out a care needs assessment. Care at home in England is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), so you can expect consistent clinical standards. Our team is happy to explain the routes, and you can read more on our paying for care guide. Providers needing nursing cover can also see our wider staffing services, including nurses and midwifery.

Areas of Plymouth we cover for private nursing

We arrange private nursing at home across the city and its surrounding communities, including:

• Plymstock
• Plympton
• Devonport
• Stonehouse
• Stoke
• Mutley
• Mannamead
• Peverell
• Crownhill
• St Budeaux
• Efford
• Honicknowle