Nursing Care

The quality of our nursing care is at the heart of The British Home. Our aim is to deliver the best possible care to our residents and place their needs first and foremost.

Our staff have long experience in caring for people with life limiting, long-term complex health needs. We care for people requiring percutaneous endoscopic gastroscopy (PEG) feeding, people with tracheotomies and people who are in vegetative states.

Our professional nursing culture ensures that care is constantly reviewed and that procedures are based on best practice and clinical effectiveness. We are keen to evaluate new ideas and put them into practice if they can benefit our residents.

The British Home is a nursing led organisation. Residents can be registered with a local GP who takes responsibility for providing medical advice to The British Home, or have their own GP. Matron and Deputy Matron head our nursing leadership and this clear structure supports all the staff.

It can take a long time for a new resident to achieve their optimum health. Good accommodation, proper rest, enjoyable food, help with washing and bathing, supervision of medication and gentle stretching and exercise in the physiotherapy department can make a significant improvement to health. Residents can then start to take up their lives again and resume relationships and perhaps explore some of the activities and events on offer.

Providing long term care is a challenge and severely disabled people can have needs that change dramatically over time. On admission the nursing priority is to stabilise a person's condition and raise his or her health status. People become residents when they come to live in The British Home and for many this can be a time of loss; they and their families may fear they are losing independence. One of the most important aspects of the care we give is to support our residents and maximise their opportunities to remain independent.

Our residents have the right to participate in The British Home as they wish, to go out as they and their families wish and to be certain that, as long as they have a need, The British Home will be their Home.