Private Nurse at Home in Medway

Medway • Kent

NMC-registered private nurses at home in Medway

Some needs go beyond what personal care can cover, and call for a qualified nurse. When that is the case, a private nurse at home lets your loved one receive clinical care in their own surroundings across the Medway Towns, rather than in a hospital or nursing home. Protocol Healthcare Services arranges NMC-registered nurses for care at home, drawing on more than a decade of experience as an REC-affiliated healthcare staffing agency, and we bring the same clinical standards to Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester as everywhere we work.

We are open about how we operate. Our offices are in the South of England, so we do not run a high-street branch in Medway. Instead we run a genuinely national service, coordinating fully vetted nurses wherever they are needed. Every nurse we arrange is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and has completed enhanced DBS and right-to-work checks, references and training before they start, so families in Strood, Rainham and Walderslade get properly accountable clinical care at home.

Clinical care our private nurses provide in Medway

• ✓ Medication administration and complex regimes
• ✓ Wound care and pressure area management
• ✓ Catheter and stoma care
• ✓ PEG and enteral feeding support
• ✓ Injections and blood-glucose monitoring
• ✓ Post-operative and recovery nursing
• ✓ Palliative and end-of-life nursing
• ✓ Continuing and complex care at home

When a private nurse is the right choice in Medway

Families across Medway turn to private nursing at home for many reasons. It might be complex medication that needs a registered nurse to administer, a wound or pressure area that requires proper dressing and monitoring, a catheter or stoma to manage, or PEG feeding to maintain. Others arrange a nurse to make coming home from hospital possible, or to provide dignified palliative care so a person can spend their final months in their own bedroom rather than a ward. Because the care is one-to-one and delivered at home, it flexes around the person and their family in a way ward routines cannot.

Local knowledge across the Medway Towns

Medway is a unitary authority in north Kent built around five historic towns: Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham, together home to more than a quarter of a million people. We arrange nursing at home right across the area, from the riverside streets of Rochester and Strood to the quieter neighbourhoods out towards Wigmore, Lordswood, Cuxton, Halling and the Hoo Peninsula. Many of the people we support have lived in the ME postcodes for decades and want their clinical care delivered in the home and community they know.

Nurse-led care is especially valuable around a hospital stay. We arrange care at home for people leaving Medway Maritime Hospital on Windmill Road in Gillingham, the main acute hospital for the area and run by Medway NHS Foundation Trust, covering post-operative wound care, drain and catheter management and complex medication, so recovery can continue safely at home and the risk of readmission is reduced. Our nurses work alongside GPs, district nurses and community teams rather than in isolation, and can be complemented by live-in care or visiting care in Medway where day-to-day support is also needed.

Funding and the cost of private nursing in Medway

Private nursing is priced on a clinical assessment, because it depends on the tasks involved, how often a nurse is needed and whether care is short-term or ongoing. We give you a clear picture before anything begins. Many Medway families self-fund, but you may be entitled to help: Medway Council can carry out a care needs assessment, and where needs are primarily health-related, NHS Continuing Healthcare funding may apply. Care at home in England is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), so you can check how local services are rated. Read more on our paying for care guide.

Nursing and staffing for Medway providers

Alongside private nursing for families, we supply NMC-registered nurses and midwives to care homes, nursing homes, supported living services and NHS teams across Medway, together with support workers, mental health and learning disability specialists. If you run a service in the Medway Towns and need dependable clinical cover, see our staffing services overview.

Areas of Medway we cover for private nursing

We arrange private nurses at home across the Medway Towns and surrounding villages, including:

• Chatham
• Gillingham
• Rochester
• Strood
• Rainham
• Walderslade
• Wainscott
• Cuxton
• Halling
• Wigmore
• Lordswood
• Hoo