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Lifetouch Care provides nurse-led catheter care at home, delivering safe, hygienic, and clinically robust support for individuals with urinary or suprapubic catheters. Our registered nurses are trained in catheter insertion, routine cleaning, securement, and drainage monitoring, with a strong focus on preventing infection and maintaining skin integrity.
Each care plan is tailored to the person’s health needs, lifestyle, and preferences, ensuring support feels both clinically precise and genuinely personal. We offer regular reviews, monitor fluid balance charts accurately, and early identification of changes, and troubleshooting for blockages, discomfort, or leakage, helping to avoid unnecessary distress or hospital visits. Families and carers receive clear, accessible education so they feel confident and supported in their role.
With full CQC-compliant governance, our approach blends professional nursing oversight with compassion and dignity, helping clients remain comfortable, independent, and in control within the familiarity of their own home.
For individuals recently discharged with an intermittent (in-and-out) catheter, our nurses provide structured, confidence-building support to help them master safe self-catheterisation at home. We focus on practical teaching, including hand hygiene, equipment preparation, positioning, and recognising when something doesn’t feel right. Education is paced gently and respectfully, allowing the person to practise with guidance until they feel secure and independent. We also help families understand how to offer encouragement without taking over, reinforcing autonomy while ensuring safety. Through regular check-ins, reassurance, and clear escalation pathways, we help clients build the skills, confidence, and routine needed to manage their catheter comfortably and with dignity.
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Lifetouch Care’s registered nurses are fully trained and competent in both male and female catheterisation, ensuring safe, dignified, and clinically appropriate support for every individual. Our team follows evidence-based techniques for insertion, removal, and ongoing management, with careful attention to privacy, comfort, and infection prevention. Whether supporting routine catheter changes or responding to urgent issues such as discomfort, leakage, or suspected blockage, our nurses deliver care that is sensitive, respectful, and aligned with each person’s needs and preferences.
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Lifetouch Care provides safe, nurse-led catheter washouts for individuals who experience long-term or recurrent catheter issues, including those living with spinal cord injury (SCI), neurogenic bladder, or other chronic conditions. People with SCI often face persistent challenges such as repeated blockages, debris buildup, bypassing, or discomfort due to altered bladder emptying and reduced sensation. Our nurses use evidence-based washout techniques to gently clear the catheter when clinically appropriate, helping to restore flow, reduce distress, and prevent avoidable complications.
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For people receiving palliative or end-of-life care, catheter-related symptoms can have a significant impact on comfort, dignity, and quality of life. Lifetouch Care provides gentle, nurse-led catheter irrigation when clinically appropriate and in line with the person’s community care plan. The focus is on symptom management, helping to ease discomfort from sluggish flow, reduce distress caused by bypassing or leakage, and prevent avoidable blockages that may worsen pain or agitation.
Our nurses work closely with community teams, GPs, and palliative‑care specialists to ensure irrigation is carried out safely, respectfully, and in a way that honours the person’s wishes. Alongside the procedure, we monitor for signs of infection, changes in urine output, and any deterioration that may require escalation. Communication with families is calm, clear, and reassuring, helping them understand what to expect and how to support comfort between visits.
Catheter care involves keeping the catheter and surrounding skin clean, secure, and functioning safely, while watching for any signs of infection or blockage. Good practice includes regular hygiene, checking the drainage bag and tubing for kinks or leakage, maintaining adequate hydration, and ensuring the catheter is positioned comfortably to protect skin integrity. Any redness, pain, fever, unusual urine changes, or reduced drainage should be reviewed by a qualified healthcare professional, as these may indicate infection or other complications.
