Nurse Catheter Care
at Home
A registered nurse who looks after your catheter at home, in your hotel or at the office in London and Greater London, and a growing number of areas across Great Britain, with discreet and respectful care.
Why Families Choose Medelit for Catheter Care
Catheter care that comes to you.
Care in Private
Intimate care is given in your own home, so nobody has to sit in a clinic waiting room.
Registered, Experienced Nurses
Every nurse is registered, vetted and experienced in catheter and continence care.
Confidence Between Visits
You and your carers learn to manage the catheter and the bags safely between visits.
How to Book Catheter Care at Home
Type Your Postcode
Your address lists the nurses who visit there, with their qualifications and fee
Propose a Time
Say when the change or check is due: the nurse confirms it or offers the nearest free time
Accept & Pay
Confirm the proposed time and settle the fee online, securely
The Home Visit
The nurse arrives at the agreed time and looks after the catheter at home
Catheter Care Our Nurses Provide at Home
A catheter is usually needed when the bladder cannot empty on its own: urine retention, a blocked urethra, incontinence that is damaging the skin, or limited mobility after surgery, ageing or a spinal injury. Our nurses look after it at home, from routine changes to removal.
Catheter Changes
Fitting & Removal
Trial Without Catheter (TWOC)
Teaching Self-Catheterisation
Infection Prevention
Continence Support
Leaks & Sore Skin
Training for CarersWhy Have Your Catheter Looked After at Home?
What patients and their families tell us when they ask for home catheter care.
My long-term catheter needs regular changes
A urethral catheter changed at home on the schedule your doctor or hospital team has set, with the drainage checked at every visit.
I’ve just come home from hospital with a catheter
Checks in the days after discharge and, when your doctor asks for one, a trial without catheter (TWOC) at home over two visits: the nurse removes the catheter, then comes back to check you are passing urine, with no trip back to the ward.
My elderly parent can’t get out of bed
Relatives and case managers can arrange catheter visits for someone who can no longer travel: the nurse comes to their bedside.
It keeps leaking and the skin around it is sore
The nurse checks the catheter, the bag and your skin, and explains what helps. If it stops draining, or you have a fever or blood in your urine, call NHS 111 straight away.
I want to manage my catheter myself
A nurse teaches you intermittent self-catheterisation at home, step by step, and shows you and your carers how to empty and change the bags, keep everything clean and notice early signs of a problem.
I’d rather not sit in a clinic for something this personal
Intimate care given discreetly in your own home, at a time arranged with the nurse, with no waiting room.
Nurse Catheter Care at Home — Service Details
Your nurse wants you to be as independent as possible, with reassurance close by.
How it works: assessment, a schedule that suits you, checks each visit, trial without catheter, self-catheterisation teaching
An Assessment First
Your first visit starts with a look at the bladder-care needs of you or your loved one.
A Rhythm That Suits You
For regular care your nurse can plan a schedule, or visits can be arranged one at a time at the times that suit you best.
Checked Each Visit
Your nurse makes sure the catheter is working properly and talks through any discomfort or leakage.
Trial Without Catheter (TWOC)
When your doctor wants to see whether you can manage without a catheter, the nurse removes it and comes back for a second visit to check you are passing urine. Because it takes two visits, it is booked as a longer service: enter your postcode to see who can offer it at your address.
Learning Self-Catheterisation
If your doctor wants you to drain your bladder yourself with intermittent catheters, the nurse teaches you at home and stays until you feel confident doing it alone. A doctor’s referral is needed.
Advantages
- Catheter care in your own home
- Registered, discreet nurses
- Catheter changes and TWOC (two visits)
- Self-catheterisation teaching
- At a time agreed with you
Wound dressings, stoma care or injections as well as your catheter? Our home nursing service page covers those too, and for all nursing visits in the capital see private nurse in London.
Catheter Care at Home You Can Trust
Registered nurses looking after catheters discreetly, in your own home.
What Our Patients Say
Very good experience. From the process to an appointment till the visit of the doctor. Even the afterwork with a detailed report. Appointment on time, good treatment. For sure, the right adress for visit of a doctor at home.
The service is impeccable...i was provided with an acupuncturist covering my area immediately and the practitioner was very professional and gave a medical report after each session. Also an invoice was provided which was acceptable by my insurance AXA PPP...
Great service all around. It was easy to arrange the appointment and make payment. Nurse came to my home to administer an infusion. Very friendly and professional nurse who was a pleasure to have in my home.
A very professional medical group. Responded immediately to my mums caring needs. We were desperate for a home visit and they answered promptly and allocated a very thorough doctor for us. Doctor made mum very relaxed because mum is usually a very nervous patient. I will recommend others to use them. Very satisfied with their services. Way to go Medelit. Well done!
The speech therapist who visited me at home was very attentive, patience and positive. She had time to address all of my questions and give me much needed guidance. Very pleased with the service and would highly recommend. Thanks, From a pleased mother.
It depends on the procedure. Fitting or removing a catheter, a trial without catheter (TWOC) and intermittent self-catheterisation all need a doctor’s referral. A routine change of an existing catheter does not.
No. Our nurses do not change suprapubic catheters at home, so this needs to be arranged with your GP or hospital team. Depending on where you live, that may be the district nursing team, your GP practice or the urology team that placed it.
Yes. A nurse can change an existing urethral catheter at home, check that it drains properly and go through how to look after it until the next change.
It depends on the type of catheter and on your doctor’s or hospital team’s advice. Your nurse can plan regular changes at home on that schedule, and show you how to change the leg and night bags in between.
Catheter care at home starts from £75. The exact fee for your address appears before you book, and payment is taken online only once you accept the time the nurse offers, and no subscription or membership is needed.
Nurses visit promptly, depending on availability where you live; a catheter visit is generally within two to three days of your request, so for a planned change it helps to book once you know the date.
Yes, when your doctor has decided it can come out. A trial without catheter (TWOC) means two home visits: on the first the nurse removes the catheter, on the second they check you are passing urine. Upload the referral or discharge letter with your request.
Yes. When your doctor or continence team wants you to empty your bladder yourself, a nurse shows you at home how to use the intermittent catheters you have been prescribed, keep everything clean and spot early signs of infection, and stays with you until you feel confident. A doctor’s referral is needed.
It can be uncomfortable, so anaesthetic gel may be used to ease it. You may notice some discomfort at first while the catheter is in, but most people with a long-term catheter get used to it.
If you are bleeding, cannot pass urine, or feel feverish or unwell, call NHS 111 or go to A&E now. A catheter pulled out while its balloon is still inflated can injure the bladder or urethra. Once you have been checked and your doctor has decided what comes next, a nurse can visit to replace it.
Check that the tube is not kinked and the bag hangs below your bladder. If nothing drains for a couple of hours, or you have tummy pain, a fever or blood in your urine, call NHS 111 or go to A&E: a blocked catheter needs urgent help, which a planned home visit cannot give.
Your doctor decides when a Foley catheter is no longer needed, and it is always safer for a nurse to take it out. The nurse empties the balloon, then gently draws the catheter out as you breathe out.
Your prescribed catheter, drainage bags and any dressings, as the nurse does not supply them, plus the referral or discharge letter if your procedure needs one. A towel and good light near the bed help too.
Yes. A relative, carer or case manager can make the booking with the patient’s address, and the nurse visits them at home. Please make sure the patient knows about the visit and agrees to it.
Yes. Nurses also flush and re-dress PICC lines, midlines and implanted ports at home, following the plan from your hospital team, with a referral letter.
On the NHS, catheter changes are usually done by the district nursing team or a community continence service after your GP or hospital refers you, and waiting times vary from area to area. With Medelit, a private service, you book the visit directly and only pay once you accept the time a nurse offers.
Some policies include nursing at home: in that case you pay Medelit, then claim the fee back from your insurer with our invoice. Ask your insurer what is covered before booking.
The nurse does not change suprapubic catheters, prescribe or supply catheters, bags or medicines, or deal with emergencies: for a blocked catheter, bleeding or a fever, call NHS 111 or go to A&E.
Nurses visit addresses in boroughs such as Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster. Treat these as examples rather than a promise: your postcode shows which nurses reach your home.
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