Hospitals, laboratories and partners

Guidance for this audience

• Preparing the home before leaving hospital

  What is best sorted the day before discharge so the first nursing visit is spent on care, not on hunting for supplies.

  2 min read

• Home nursing care: what French health insurance covers

  Prescription, sector 1, direct billing, top-up cover: the billing route explained plainly, without coding jargon.

  2 min read

• How home nursing works in France

  Who prescribes, who treats, who pays, who coordinates: the full chain between patient, doctor, nursing practice, health insurance, laboratory and hospital, explained without jargon.

  2 min read

• Referring a patient: how the practice works with doctors

  Response times, handover format, alert criteria, holiday continuity, traceability: what a doctor gets when referring a patient to us, written down.

  2 min read

• How the practice is organised: protocols, hygiene, traceability

  The round, written protocols, hygiene, supplies, waste, data and continuity: the practice's internal mechanics, described for those who want to know before entrusting a patient.

  2 min read

• Home infusion and IV antibiotics: what actually happens

  IV line, implanted port, pump, intravenous antibiotics: what home infusion really involves, what is monitored, what should raise the alarm and who steps in when something goes wrong.

  1 min read

• Hospital discharge: arranging the nursing handover at home

  What the practice asks for, what it guarantees and within what deadlines, so a hospital discharge becomes home care with no gap: the call, the documents, the first visit, the supplies, the written report.

  2 min read

• Home blood draws: what really decides whether a result is reliable

  Between the needle and the laboratory analyser, a tube goes through a critical hour. Here is how the practice organises timing, patient identification, transport and result handling with local laboratories.

  2 min read