Postoperative Care

Returning home after surgery, injury, or an acute illness can be both a relief and a challenge. The road to recovery often requires specialised care to ensure optimal healing and rehabilitation. Postoperative care at home bridges the gap between hospital discharge and full recovery, offering professional support to help you regain independence in a familiar and comforting environment.

At Prestige Nursing & Care, we have 80 years of experience delivering expert postoperative care. Families trust us to provide compassionate, high-quality support tailored to individual recovery needs. Our services are designed to improve health and well-being, giving you or your loved one the confidence to recover in the place you love most— your home.

What is postoperative care?

Postoperative care is support provided after an acute illness, injury or hospital stay. The postoperative care required is unique to each individual and is based on the type of surgery, injury or illness, the person’s overall health and any specific requirements such as wound care or pain management.

Postoperative care begins immediately after surgery. For serious procedures and lengthy hospital stays, postoperative care begins inpatient and continues after the patient is back home.

For outpatient or day surgery, postoperative care can be carried out directly at home.
In either situation, our home care post surgery services are available to help you recover as quickly as possible in the safety and comfort of your own home. After you are discharged, we will meet with you and your family to create a highly-personalised care plan designed to meet your recovery needs whilst following any hospital recommendations.

The duration of your postoperative care at home will be tailored to your recovery needs and recommendations from your medical team. Our care is highly flexible and can be adapted to meet your changing needs with minimal disruption to your life.

The benefits of choosing postoperative care at home

Recovering at home after surgery or illness offers a range of benefits that promote both physical healing and emotional well-being. With Prestige Nursing & Care, you’ll experience the unique advantages of personalised, at home postoperative care:

Comfort of home: Healing in a familiar and stress-free environment can speed up recovery by reducing anxiety and promoting rest.
One-to-one support: Our tailored care ensures that all your needs are met, from pain management to daily activities, with undivided attention.
Enhanced independence: Unlike a hospital or rehabilitation facility, home care allows you to maintain your routines and enjoy more freedom.
Family involvement: Being at home makes it easier for family members to be part of your recovery journey, offering additional emotional support.
Flexible and adaptable care: Our services are designed to adjust as your recovery progresses, ensuring you always have the right level of support.
Reduced risk of complications: With expert monitoring and hygiene practices, we help minimise the risk of infection and other postoperative complications.

With Prestige Nursing & Care by your side, you can focus on healing while we manage the details of your care, ensuring you have a smoother and more comfortable recovery.

What Do Our Postoperative Services Include?

EXPERT NURSE-LED CARE

Our service is nurse-led and carers are trained in the clinical skills required to provide care and support for complex, terminal and other medical conditions that impact how you live your life. They are supported by an experienced, dedicated registered nurse who undertakes regular competency assessments to ensure high standards of care delivery and provides clinical monitoring, supervision and support. With this leadership and oversight carers can perform many delegated healthcare tasks and clinical interventions at home.

CONDITION-LED CARE

We provide specialist care of conditions that affect a person’s ability to live well. Whatever specialist condition you are living with, our carers are supported by our expert nursing and clinical teams to ensure you live a life with improved quality and health outcomes, whilst maintaining choice and independence.

CONSIDERATE COMPANIONSHIP

Companionship is at the forefront of everything we do. Our carers will support your social, emotional and psychological needs as well as your care needs so you can live a fulfilled life, for all of life. At Prestige Nursing & Care we will match you with the most suitable carers so that interests and backgrounds are aligned as we know this makes for an enriched and enjoyable life. Our carers will support you to maintain friendships and social interests, whilst ensuring you continue to be connected to things you care about in your local community.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL CARE

Our carers are trained to provide personal care in a way that is compassionate, respectful and sensitive. They will support you with the tasks of bathing, personal hygiene, dressing and continence care, whilst ensuring you are always looking and feeling your best as we know how this builds self-esteem.

SAFE MOBILITY AT HOME

Our carers are trained to support safe mobility in and around the home – everything from transferring and positioning to minimising falls through effective assessment of risk, to facilitating and supporting safe movement. They will effectively assess risks and work with clients who wish to take ‘positive risks’ so that they can have as much independence as possible and live life as you wish.

EFFICIENT MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

For the majority of our clients ensuring medications are managed effectively is critical to their health and well-being. Our carers can manage complex medication regimes, providing sensitive reminders and collecting medication from the pharmacy.

MEAL PREPARATION AND COOKING

Our carers will help by planning your meals, preparing and cooking your food for you, or with you whilst supporting you to eat if needed. They will focus on ensuring the food you eat meets your health and nutritional needs, whilst maintaining your preferences and choices.

HOUSEHOLD TASKS IN AND OUT OF THE HOME

Our carers will make sure your house is clean, laundry is done as required and will undertake any shopping or errands outside the home. They will also happily provide care to your beloved pet.

REABLEMENT CARE

For clients who need to relearn skills our carers assist goal-focussed care at home that involves intensive time-limited assessment and therapy intended to reduce the need for a long-term care arrangement or readmission to hospital.

ENABLEMENT CARE

We provide support to people who need to learn new skills to improve the overall quality of their life with as much independence as possible. Our carers are focused on enabling a person to do as much for themselves as possible with the right support, as opposed to just doing it for them. We know this means people can live a more fulfilled and purposeful life.

REHABILITATION

We assist outcome-based rehabilitation at home following a life-altering incident supports an individual with mobility, physical development and mental health well-being. We adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to the service we provide working in collaboration with other healthcare professionals, including physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists to ensure a high-quality, holistic and responsive approach to the brain injury care we provide.

PALLIATIVE / END-OF-LIFE CARE

Our compassionate and competent carers are there to support those who need palliative or end-of-life care. They are trained to ensure an individual’s medical, physical, psychological, social and spiritual well-being is enhanced, whilst ensuring a person’s wishes, choices and preferences are met until the very end-of-life.

HOME FROM HOSPITAL

We work closely with community nursing teams and hospital discharge planners to support a swift and effective discharge from hospital ensuring the right care and support is in place. Our high-quality, home care service delivered by trained and experienced carers and overseen by clinical experts is focused on achieving outcomes that significantly reduce hospital admissions.

Preoperative & Postoperative Care Services

Preoperative care is support provided prior to a medical operation. While preparing for a surgery or hospital stay, the last thing you need is to be burdened with domestic chores or running errands. Our preoperative care is available to help you with any tasks around your home so that you can focus on better preparing for your surgery.

Prior to your surgery, our carers can provide domestic support such as:

Help with household tasks around the home
Personal care
Filling prescriptions
Preparing the home for recovery
Scheduling appointments
Social and emotional support

Expert Nurse-led Care at Home

If you need support in the care of a complex condition, our nurse-led care can be provided at home. Our nurse-led care is delivered by skilled carers led and managed by a highly experienced registered nurse.

As part of our nursing care service, we assess care needs and plan the care and support required. We continually monitor and evaluate outcomes, so that the care provided meets changing needs.

Our nurse-led care services include:

Hands-on, nurse-led care at home
Establishing and agreeing on clinical care needs
Undertaking risk assessments
Developing a plan of care in collaboration with the client, medical team and family
Monitoring and evaluation of the care being provided to ensure quality
Providing advice and support to the client and their family
Working in collaboration with other healthcare professionals involved in a person’s care

Competent and Compassionate Postoperative Carers

When you choose Prestige Nursing & Care, the carer who cares for you or your loved one will be experienced and expertly trained to provide the support you need, to the high standards you should expect.

We adopt a bespoke approach to training that ensures our carers have the knowledge, skills and aptitude to deliver high-quality postoperative care that meets the particular needs of our clients. Through our unrivalled supervision and clinical oversight, carers can adapt their approach and evolve their care to meet changing needs.

In addition to completing our induction training programme, all our carers are trained by our registered nurses, clinical experts and other healthcare professionals. This hands-on nurse training means our carers can competently undertake a range of clinical interventions that may be necessary post operatively.

We are very proud of our carers – each and every one of them is dedicated to providing compassionate, sensitive and dignified postoperative care at home to ensure a successful and sustainable recovery is achieved.

Costs of Postoperative Care at Home

The cost of postoperative home care is dependent on the level of care and support you require. The overall cost of our care is determined by the number and frequency of visits to you at home. Our experts will conduct a comprehensive assessment of your needs to truly understand what care and support you require. After this assessment, we will provide a comprehensive care plan including the exact cost of our service.

Arrange for Postoperative Care

Many people believe the only way to recover after surgery, an injury or illness is in a residential care home or hospital setting. Our postoperative care at home allows you to receive the care and support you need so that you can focus on a successful recovery.

Call us on 0808 239 1525 and our friendly care experts will discuss your care and support needs. You can also fill out our online enquiry form or email info@prestige-nursing.co.uk. We provide impartial guidance and advice so you make the right choice for you and your family.