Complex and continuing care

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Benefits of the service Hide

• Patients are cared for in the right way, at the right time, in the right place - closer to home in the most appropriate way.
• Patients can have a better quality of life in a home environment with less social disruption.
• Home healthcare supports patients to live life as they choose with privacy and respect.
• Being cared for at home reduces the risk of institutionalisation and minimises lifetime costs of formal care.
• We deliver a holistic care plan that enables the achievement of lifetime goals and promotes independence.

Who is the service for? Hide

• Hospitalised, stable patients with significant nursing and clinical care needs that require constant monitoring.
• Those in intensive/high dependency beds facing a long term recovery process.
• Patients with degenerative conditions and ongoing needs.
• Those with special needs, physical and learning disabilities or requiring long-term support in the home.
• Those with complex needs who are dependent on life sustaining technology.
• We provide a service for children, young people and adults.

Working in partnership with NHS clinicians, we plan the discharge of each patient from hospital and create a tailored care package to meet their specific clinical and social needs.

We can provide all aspects required of a complex and continuing care package, including:

• case management by appropriately skilled professionals
• physical and psychological support from the care team
• equipment, ancillary and prescription management
• social and environmental support

Patients with long-term complex and continuing care needs usually remain in hospital for indefinite periods of time. They may also have a long-term recovery process ahead and need the support of experienced staff - something that Bupa Home Healthcare