Empowering Recovery

Leaving hospital should be the start of a period of relaxation and recovery, but for many it can feel overwhelming. In fact, around 1 in 7 patients in England are readmitted within 30 days of going home, usually because they are not getting the right care, or support after discharge.

The evidence is clear: appropriate home care and support after discharge is important for recovery. Care after leaving hospital can dramatically reduce your chances of readmission. One thing that can really take a toll recovery plans, is when patients spend extra days in hospital waiting for discharge. Muscles don't get used, so they weaken and atrophy. This makes recovery at home much harder and longer. For older or more vulnerable patients, each extra day in the hospital can mean an additional week—or more—of recovery time spent at home. Healthcare, like any other serious concern, is better when addressed early.

CareCoaching's Care Planning & Advocacy Hub

Personalized support for effective healthcare recovery and planning.

Tailored Solutions

Compassionate Coaching. Empowered Planning. Expert Support.

Whether you're preparing for a care assessment, setting up legal safeguards for the future, or navigating the journey of personal recovery, CareCoaching offers a range of tailored services to support you with clarity, structure, and empathy.

Health & Welfare LPAs & Advance Statements

Take control of your future with professionally guided Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA) and Advance Statements. Ensure your wishes are respected and your wellbeing protected if you lose mental capacity.

✅ Document medical, care, and living preferences

✅ Appoint and instruct trusted attorneys

✅ Support with registration, if required

£70 (includes 2×1 hour sessions) London-based witness service and registration support available

Lasting Powers of Attorney are essential for protecting your rights, your voice, and your future.

Local Authority Assessment Coaching

Get prepared for care assessments with a Care Act-compliant plan that reflects your full needs and goals. From menu planning and personal care to mental health support and social recovery, I guide you through the entire process.

✅ Step-by-step Care Plan creation

✅ Help identifying local contacts and advocacy pathways

✅ Support with Direct Payments and scheduling routines

£60 (includes 2×1 hour sessions)

Your care. Your voice. Your plan.

Personal Care & Recovery Coaching

Tailored one-on-one coaching to help you create structure, cope with challenges, and stay accountable to your recovery. Includes hands-on support for correspondence, applications, and interview preparation.

✅ Project planning and emotional support

✅ Help with letters, forms, and service navigation

✅ Interview prep and formal response coaching

£70 (includes 2×1 hour sessions) Form support (£10/page), witness service available in London

Create positive change with clarity, structure, and holistic support.

Care Plan Consultancy Session

A personalised, low cost consultancy service designed to help you take control of your care and get the support you truly need.

This session is ideal for individuals who:

  • Receive Local Authority direct payments or use a direct payment card

  • Manage some or all of their own care arrangements

  • Feel their current care package isn’t meeting their needs

  • Want more independence, clarity, or confidence in shaping their care

  • Are unsure how to adjust their care plan or what options are available

  • Need help finding carers, services, or equipment that fit their needs and budget

If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about your care plan. I offer an affordable 90 minute consultancy service designed for individuals receiving Local Authority direct payments or managing their own care arrangements. This service is ideal for anyone who feels their current support isn’t fully meeting their needs and wants greater clarity, control, or independence in shaping their care. I help you review your existing care plan, identify gaps, and explore practical adjustments that can make a meaningful difference. Whether you’re struggling to find the right carer, need guidance on specialist equipment, want support researching alternative services, or require help with letters, referrals, or signposting, I provide an objective, knowledgeable perspective to optimise your care plan for maximum impact and help you to thrive.

Why Care and Wellness Support Matters

Why Patients Sometimes Go Back to Hospital

Leaving hospital should be the start of recovery, but for many people it can feel overwhelming. In fact, around 1 in 7 patients in England are readmitted within 30 days of going home, often because they don’t get the right care or support after discharge. The three main elements that cause hospital readmissions is a lack of co-ordination, lack of a discharge plan, and the failure of NHS services to cater to complex patient needs. Here are the main reasons why readmission happens:

1. Care That Doesn’t Connect

When different doctors, nurses, and services don’t share information properly, patients can feel lost. Missed appointments, unclear instructions, or poor communication between hospital, GP and community care teams often mean that patients, wait for care, or receive only the most basic care and end up back in hospital.

2. Weak Discharge Planning

Going home without a clear care plan is risky. Patients need:

  • Easy to follow instructions about medicines

  • Follow up appointments already booked

  • Support at home, whether from family, carers, or community services

Without these, recovery can stall, and problems quickly build up.

3. Complex Needs

Some patients face bigger challenges. Older age, long term health conditions, mental health struggles, or living alone without proper care, equipment, or support, makes recovery harder. They will more likely to need extra help to stay well at home.

Why Home Care and Support Matters

The good news is that strong home care and friendly support can prevent relapse, hospital readmission. Having good nutrition, fresh air, physiotherapy or exercise. someone to check on medicines, help with daily tasks, and provide reassurance makes a huge difference. With the right support, patients can recover safely, avoid unnecessary hospital trips, and feel more confident about the future.

People get a care assistant because they want something – they have a goal in mind, a problem to be solved, and they want a specific end result.

A care assistant takes the same attitude with care plan coaching as with health and wellness coaching, which starts by taking a look at your health, activity level, personality type and goals, so we are 100% clear on what “feeling like yourself again (or as close as possible)” means to you - and where you want to be moving forwards .

Whether you need help with getting out more, getting better mobility equipment, finding a new carer, video cam shopping, finding ways to economise or streamline your care package, improving your nutation, making applications and/or appeals, organising your home, planning your travel, a witness for wills and LPA's,.. A care assistant can help you to find the way to create the space in your life to work on your health and care, and integrate your weekly care plan, fresh air, social activities, nutrition, paperwork and administration, personal care and medical appointments, with a step by step schedule for recovery.

The journey back to health and wellness can be challenging, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. A good care assistant can guide and support you every step of the way. Care Coaching believes in your ability to recover, achieve lasting wellness and live a fulfilling life.

“Peace of mind starts here. Get the right care at home, right when you need it.

PACKAGES

If you need help accessing Care or Healthcare ServicesCare Coaching has affordable prices for all Care Users and Carer Support Packages.

We've got low cost, professional agency consultancy/PA services for expedient help with resolving a healthcare, social care, employment, or legal issues, during or after illness or injury,.

CareCoaching has 13 years of experienced in helping clients with diet, nutrition, exercise. We can help with benefit applications, Self Directed care assessments, or even making travel plans.

If you or a loved one is a patient in hospital and has received a discharge assessment or order, but have not been released, because the discharge is not organised, or a patient the needs more care after their interim care package ends.

The essential advocacy service package helps you ensure a timely discharge. By making sure you have a carer in place (if necessary), transport home from hospital arranged, a plan for preparing your home ready for your return to be picked up. make sure there is food and drink in the house and, if it is cold, put on the heating,. Also a check to make sure you have house keys with you, make sure you have suitable outdoor clothing to wear, and all your belongings and medication when you leave hospital.

This service Includes a free initial 15 minute consultation, I learn about your situation and establish how I can help. I help you find the best carers, resources and services in your local area that can work with your unique situation. This service is especially helpful for carers of those recovering from disability, returning from hospital, or convalescing at home.

Self Funded Patient Initial Discharge Support Advocacy Package (for patients requiring support while waiting for hospital discharge) may require in person support and may incur additional travel fees

Available for Classes and Workshops

I'm available to meet with groups and faciltate workshops on care planning. I also run practical, uplifting group sessions designed to make caring easier and healthier. My workshops ,including “Planning for Spring: 5 Signs It’s Time to Review Your Care Plan”, exploring everyday wellbeing topics such as shopping, exercise, physiotherapy, nutrition, outdoor activity, and personal care. These sessions are available to libraries, charities, community centres, care homes, and local groups, and can be delivered independently or co hosted with your organisation.

My presentations and workshops can be tailored for adults receiving home care who want more control over their care planning, family carers navigating the care system. I also give talks to people considering a Shared Lives scheme, and to individuals preparing for a self-directed assessment, or care review.

Click button below to contact me for booking information.

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Client Feedback

Hear from our satisfied clients about their transformative experiences.

PG Consultancy helped me create a personalized care plan that truly met my needs. Their support was invaluable during my recovery process after surgery.

Emily Johnson
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A healthcare worker, wearing a light blue surgical gown, a white mask, and a white cap with red polka dots, adjusts her headwear in a hospital setting. The background features a wall clock and a white and gray interior.

London, UK

I can definitely say it was a pleasure speaking with Patricia. I felt at ease that there was no pressure put on me to follow all of the recommendations she spoke about, as I have had bad habits for a long time.

We worked out a plan that I would start with a few food supplements.

Thanks George


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London, UK

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