Our Homecare Services

When you are ready for discharge you will be allocated to a homecare provider who will continue to provide all your TPN and equipment known as 'Ancils'. The provider you are allocated to will be decided on an individual basis based on your requirements. 

Our home care providers all offer 24 hour helplines for issues related to your TPN such as deliveries, broken bags or equipment queries. If you have a broken fridge or electric issue you should call your provider as a matter of urgency. 

All our providers also offer a nursing service for those who are unable to do their own procedures or who have no carers that can do it. However, independence will always be encouraged and any training required can be continued at home with our homecare nurses if you are not quite ready to be signed off in hospital. We understand there may be times when either you or your carer/carers are not able to facilitate your procedures, whether this be due to sickness, or holiday. This needs to be discussed with your nutrition support team as early as possible so they can try and arrange suitable support for your needs.

If you have nurses coming to help with HPS connections, disconnections, or line care, please make sure you're at home at the agreed times. If you can't be there, contact the homecare provider in advance to reschedule.

When you are home, you will receive your ancils and HPS deliveries weekly. Depending on fridge capacity and stability of your prescription this can be reduced to fortnightly. This will be determined by your Intestinal rehabilitation and HPS team. Please make sure you're available when deliveries are due or arrange another safe way for them to be received.

We currently have 3 homecare providers that we use:-Calea, B-braun and Lloyds Clinical. 

If you would like to know more about your Provider and what they offer please click on the appropriate link below:-