Peg-gastrostomy care

What is gastrostomy care?

Gastrostomy care helps people with a feeding tube to live independently and confidently.

Gastrostomy is a term used to describe a surgical opening made directly into the stomach. This artificial opening is introduced to help people who experience difficulty swallowing food and liquids. A discreet plastic peg (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) tube or button directly inserted into the opening allows for food and liquids, as well as medicines, to enter the stomach.

With gastrostomy care at home, an expert carer will help you to manage and clean your feeding tube, prepare meals, help with feeding and assist with matters of personal hygiene.

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What does our gastrostomy care involve?

We take a holistic approach to our gastrostomy care, which means our focus is on supporting your physical and emotional well-being in the short and long term.

As well as covering the medical aspects of gastrostomy care, our services also cover the important element of companionship. When our experienced carers arrive to provide PEG feeding at home for customers, they’re there to offer their help and support. Enthusiastic and friendly, our carers are never too busy for a quick chat and are happy to assist you to be comfortable in your own home.

Help with feeding

We can help prepare and administer food and fluid through daily feeding tube care, taking dietary requirements into account

Managing your feeding tube

As well as helping with feeding, your carer can also assist with cleaning, flushing and connecting your feeding tube

Personal care

Your carer can help keep the skin around the tube clean and healthy, as well as assisting with toileting, bathing and dressing

Support around the home

If you’d benefit from having an extra pair of hands to help with the chores, your carer will always be happy to assist

Companionship

Enthusiastic and friendly, our carers are never too busy for a quick chat and are always there to offer emotional support

Medication support

All of our carers are expertly trained to assist with prescriptions, including helping you to organise and administer your medication

Helping you to live a healthy and independent life

We take great pride in offering gastrostomy care to people within their own homes

At Helping Hands, we believe that home is the best place to receive care and continue leading a healthy, happy and independent life. Our services are led by our team of clinical nurses, who are enthusiastic about the people they provide gastrostomy care and peg-feeding support to. Combined with the links we hold with hospitals and other health organisations, this allows us to deliver the best level of feeding care possible.

Regimes can be continuous or bolus of all nutritional intake, and are always tailored to your personal needs and preferences. Some of the many benefits of receiving gastrostomy care at home are:

Enjoy an independent life

Having the support of a carer in your home can help you to live life more independently and on your own terms, knowing that you’ve got

Keep up your routines and hobbies

Whether you’re a keen gardener, part of a book club or just enjoy seeing friends for a cuppa, you’ll be able to keep to all your normal routines

Maintain your well-being

Having a carer can provide immense physical and emotional health benefits, such as added confidence, conserving your energy and more

Fully trained gastrostomy carers

When you opt for PEG tube feeding delivered by a carer employed by Helping Hands, it’s designed to cater to you and you alone. Our expert nursing teams recognise that PEG care circumstances vary from person-to-person. We take into account your requirements to ensure you receive the levels of gastrostomy tube feeding care you need.

All our gastrostomy tube care services are delivered by carers who are fully trained in personal care routines. We put all of our carers through significant selection procedures before inviting them to join our team. Our customers love their Helping Hands carers because they are:

all the helping hands employees that work in adult care

Expertly trained and fully vetted

Every carer receives our industry-renowned training which equips them to provide expert peg-gastrostomy care, and all of them are DBS checked

Kind and compassionate

At Helping Hands, we have a very specific recruitment process which means we only hire the most kind, empathetic carers to our teams

Directly employed by us

We directly employ all of our carers, so we take full responsibility for managing their workload, maintaining their wellbeing and paying them

Fully regulated by the CQC / CIW

Here at Helping Hands, our PEG support is fully managed and regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

From your very first phone call to our friendly team, every aspect of your home care service is independently monitored and regulated by the CQC and Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW).