WHY CHOOSE PRESTIGE NURSING & CARE?
Prestige Nursing & Care provides high-quality, personalised and expert home care services for every stage of life that evolve with the changing needs of those we care for. Our comprehensive range of services provided by highly trained compassionate carers, registered nurses and clinical experts, ensures our clients receive the right kind of care at the right time, all delivered right at home. By combining the range of care services and skills of Prestige Nursing & Care and The Good Care Group, we can meet a client’s needs at every stage of their life.
For over 75 years we have been trusted by our clients, and their families to provide competent and compassionate care that is focused on improving health and overall well-being – all in the safety and comfort of the place people love most, their own home.
We care for babies and children who require specialist paediatric care, adults living with life-limiting and complex conditions and older people, and couples who need care and support with daily living. Our established and accredited service means generations people can live more independently with an improved quality of life, for all of life.
There are many compelling reasons why our clients and professionals involved in procuring specialist home care are reassured when they choose Prestige Nursing & Care:
Expert nurse-led care
Our nurse-led care enables people living with any complex condition to live well in their own home with improved health outcomes. Our highly trained professional teams are supported by clinical experts and registered nurses, who provide unrivalled monitoring and supervision to ensure the clinical care provided exceeds the very highest standards. We adopt a holistic, responsive and flexible approach to care and support planning, ensuring plans are tailored to not just to meet an individual’s everyday care needs, but enhance everyday life.
Services that evolve with changing needs
We continually assess our clients’ needs to ensure the service we provide offers the right level of care and support, at the right time. Our broad range of home care services includes hourly care for those that require support at times during the day and night, a respite care service that allows a family carer to take a much-needed break through to live-in care for when a 24-hour permanent package of care is needed. We provide everything from support with personal care, domestic tasks and socialisation through to nurse-led care, rehabilitation and care for those living with complex conditions, right through to sensitive and compassionate palliative and end-of-life care.
Specialist care of complex conditions
Our expertly trained and experienced teams have the skills and experience to deliver high-quality care of complex conditions that impact an individual’s ability to live an independent life. Whether we are supporting a child’s development who is living with spina bifida, or an adult with muscular dystrophy or an older person living with dementia, our care has been trusted by thousands of families up and down the country. Our service allows people to live the best possible life, for all of life providing peace of mind and reassurance at a time you need it most.
Highly trained, competent and compassionate carers
People are at the heart of everything we do. We know how important it is for you to have a carer that truly understands your needs, not just your care needs but your emotional, psychological and well-being needs too. We take time to make sure that that the carer that cares for you is trained to support your specific condition, but is also aligned to how you wish to live your life, so you can have an enhanced and fulfilled life. They will adopt a compassionate approach to care that considers not just the person receiving care but all the family, as we know through our experience how valuable this support is for everyone.
Collaborating and partnering to care for you
We work in partnership with healthcare professionals, case managers, families and personal injury lawyers to ensure we have an in-depth understanding of a clients’ needs. Our expert clinical teams will conduct a professional assessment of needs and assign the best team of competent and compassionate carers to meet those needs. Our care teams are supported by a care manager and experienced nursing team at a local level to ensure on-going monitoring, clinical oversight and support of the service we provide , communicating progress so you can be reassured that your client or loved one is in the safest hands, receiving the highest quality care.
Responsive local teams with nationwide coverage
We are providing care and support in over 30 locations in the heart of communities across England and Scotland. The fully managed service we provide is highly responsive and our experts local to you can put care packages in place quickly, working in collaboration with local healthcare professionals, multidisciplinary teams, therapeutic care providers and other community support services. We know this holistic approach ensures our clients get the best out of life, for all of life.
Quality assurance through regulated care provision
Prestige Nursing & Care is not an agency. Unlike a home care agency, we provide a fully regulated home care service, which means our clients, their families and our professional partners can be assured that the care and support we provide is of the very highest quality. Our service is inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England and the Scottish Care Inspectorate (SCI) in Scotland. We are proud that 96% of our inspected services have been rated as providing a ‘Good’ service, with 4% rated ‘Outstanding’ and our services in Scotland have a five-star rating. Our accredited service for complex care, which meets local and national quality standards and ensures a consistent approach to the care we provide, provides peace of mind and reassurance that our service if of the highest quality.
We are here to take your call and will provide impartial support and guidance – contact our friendly care experts today to discuss your nurse-led care needs.
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