Tracheostomy Care

Superior Healthcare provides tailored, nurse-led home care for children, young people, and adults with tracheostomies, and associated complex care conditions.

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Care for people with tracheostomies

Superior Healthcare supports children, young people, and adults who have tracheostomies.

We collaborate with hospitals, integrate care boards ICBs, and multidisciplinary teams including – respiratory specialists across the UK – to establish robust care packages and assist in the safe discharge of individuals from hospitals to their homes as soon as possible.

With the help of our expert nurse managers, we create sustainable complex care packages that clients and their relatives can rely on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

How we can help

Our nurse-led team offers tailored home care for children, young people, and adults – as well as respite for families. Whether it’s day, night, or 24-hour nursing care, we can help. We offer:

Day or night care
24-hour care
Live-in care
Student support

Tracheostomy management

Superior Healthcare trains carers, support workers, and nurses who, as part of your wider care package, will assist in managing your tracheostomy, including tasks such as:

Cleaning the stoma of a tracheostomy
Suctioning via tracheostomy
Routine tracheostomy tube and tape changes
Performing emergency tube changes
Using clinical observational skills to notice when clients are in respiratory distress and knowing how to act accordingly
Providing emotional support and guidance to help cope with the emotional impact of having a tracheostomy

Expert care and nursing teams

All our specialist healthcare assistants and registered nurses – including paediatric nurses -are trained in the skills required to provide tracheostomy care and airway management.

Our team provide care for both invasive (via tracheostomy) and non-invasive ventilation. Our team are also trained to use ventilators, including the NIPPY range, and to support people who require continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) to breathe.

In addition to tracheostomy and client-specific training, the client’s personalised care plan ensures that care and nursing teams – who are supervised and supported by a Nurse Manager – have a thorough understanding of the client’s condition, needs, preferences, and wishes.

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Clinical support

Children, young people, and adults who need support to manage their tracheostomies and maintain a clear airway may also require additional clinical or social care support. Our clinical support includes:

Tracheostomy and/or ventilator care (BiPAP/CPAP) and support to maintain a clear airway
Gastrostomy or jejunostomy care
Full moving and handling
Personal care including continence care
Suction or cough assist support
Positive behaviour support
Medication administration
Epilepsy management

For us, it's personal

Superior Healthcare was founded in 2006, following our CEO’s own experience of locating a care package to support his brother, Alex, who sustained a traumatic brain injury at age 11.

Having experienced firsthand the importance of high-quality, compassionate, and consistent complex care, we are driven to ensure that everyone – including people with tracheostomies, can live a fulfilled life – with fun, dignity, independence, and choice.

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Make a referral

Do you, or does a loved one, have a tracheostomy and need home care support?

If your care is funded by an NHS ICB, a county council, or a Case Manager or Financial Deputy, we can discuss transferring your care to Superior Healthcare.

Let us help you. To get started, complete the form or call us at 01227 774873

Tracheostomy care FAQs

Superior Healthcare supports people and their families who are self-funding care or using a personal health budget.

If your care package is commissioned by an NHS ICB, a county council, or by a Case Manager or Financial Deputy, we can talk to them about moving to us today.

To enquire about the cost of a package, click ‘Make a referral’ or call us at 01227 774873.

All our team members receive a five-day, in-depth, classroom-based training syllabus with practical workshops before being introduced to our clients.

The training covers all aspects of the Care Certificate and includes detailed instruction on the skills required to support complex client needs, such as tracheostomy management and gastrostomy.

Individual, client-focused training continues after the initial classroom induction. This training continues as the individual’s care evolves.

All employees recruited to provide tracheostomy care are experienced and qualified.

Click ‘Make a referral’ or call us at 01227 774873.

A tracheostomy is an artificial airway which is situated in the trachea and can act as a scaffold to keep the airway open providing optimum oxygenation when required. Some conditions that may require a tracheostomy, include premature birth, cancer, tracheomalacia, or muscular conditions such as muscular dystrophy.

Commonly, people may have a tracheostomy to help deliver oxygen to their lungs if they are unable to breathe normally after an incident or accident, or because their muscles are weak (Source: NHS).

A tracheostomy procedure may be required, for someone living with a condition such as motor neurone disease, Guillain-Barré Syndrome or cystic fibrosis, or for someone who has experienced a severe head injury or stroke.

Superior Healthcare is regulated and rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission.

We work closely with specialist hospitals, including the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’, and the Royal Brompton Hospital.
We employ a team of trained carers, support workers and registered nurses who are managed by our team of nurse managers.
Superior Healthcare has up-to-date safeguarding and whistleblowing policies and delivers training to all members of our team.