Night-Time Domiciliary

Providing Night-Time Domiciliary Care and support for patients around Torbay & Devon

Bay Care have been leading the way in care and support services in Devon and Torbay for many years. As part of a new trial in conjunction with the NHS, we are now offering night-time domiciliary care for our clients.

Adults requiring social care in their own homes in Torbay can now benefit from a new ‘twilight hours’ service being offered by the Bay Care group. NHS England has recently awarded the Bay Care group initial funding from the national ‘Better Care Fund’ to establish and develop a new night time service to fill gaps in existing provision.

This service is unique in the region and is a new model of providing urgent social care during the night and small hours of the morning. This is not only preferable to many patients, who prefer peace and solidarity when trying to sleep, but also frees up NHS workers to complete other duties and tend to more patients.

This new service will ultimately aim to:

• Reduce the number of people waiting to return home from hospital admissions, due to a lack of specialist social care to allow them to go home safely.
• Reduce the number of avoidable hospital admissions linked to a lack of community based social care during ‘twilight hours’.
• Reduce the number of ambulance team visits to simply to assist uninjured people up from the floor after falling in their homes during the middle of the night.
• Provide additional support to relatives throughout the night, who have concerns about the safety and wellbeing of their loved ones living on their own in the Bay.