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Delivery
Home care & home infusion
Some of what happens in a hospital bed does not need a hospital bed.
Delivered at a partner unit
What it is
Selected infusions, injections, wound and stoma care, catheter and port flushes, physiotherapy and end-of-life care can be delivered at home by trained staff under a written protocol, with an escalation route.
In Delhi this saves days of travel and a great deal of money. It is safe only where the protocol, the drug and the patient are all suitable, which is a clinical decision, not a convenience one.
When it is used
- Long-term catheter, port or stoma care
- Selected supportive infusions and injections
- Physiotherapy and rehabilitation after discharge
- End-of-life care at home
- Where travel itself is the barrier to treatment
How the decision is made
- Which specific drugs and procedures are safe outside a monitored setting, many are not.
- The escalation route, named and rehearsed, before the first home visit.
- Who is responsible clinically for what happens at home.
Prescribed and supervised here; delivered by a vetted home-care partner under our written protocol.
Who does what
What we handle, and what happens elsewhere
KPCIRC handles
- Suitability assessment before anything moves home
- A written protocol the visiting nurse follows
- A named escalation contact and a receiving hospital
- Family training and a written instruction sheet
- Review after each block of visits
Performed and billed elsewhere
- The home visits themselves
- Equipment and consumables
- First doses of any drug that can cause a reaction are given in a monitored setting, never at home. If a home-care provider offers to start chemotherapy at home on day one, decline.
Questions to ask your own doctor
Take these with you. They work whether or not you are treated here.
- Which parts of my treatment can safely happen at home?
- Who comes, and what are they trained in?
- What do we do if something goes wrong at 2 am?
- What does this cost against attending?
Support that goes with it
Where this is used
Cancers this commonly forms part of
Lung & thoracic cancer
Non-small cell and small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma, thymic tumours
Colorectal cancer
Colon and rectal cancer, bowel cancer
Breast cancer
Including hormone-receptor positive, HER2-positive and triple-negative disease
Myeloma
Multiple myeloma
Childhood cancer
Cancers in children and adolescents
Not sure this is the right option for you?
That is exactly what a second opinion is for. Bring what you have, we will tell you what is missing and what the alternatives actually are, in writing.