Health in the Home
Now available in the Munster region.
Health in the Home is a home health service delivered by trained nurses, allowing patients to continue certain IV treatments & other therapies in their own home.
Health in the Home enables you to receive acute clinical care, which might ordinarily be delivered in hospital or a clinic setting in the comfort of your own home. This care is delivered by our provider TCP Homecare who are a team of specialised nurses and will keep your medical team informed of your care every step of the way. This service is backed up by a 24-hour patient helpline. This phone service is only for members who have been referred to the Health in the Home service. All other members who wish to get advice from a nurse can access our Nurse on Call line via My Clinic.
How does Health in the Home work?
Health in the Home enables you to receive acute clinical care, which might ordinarily be delivered in hospital or a clinic setting in the comfort of your own home. This care is delivered by our provider TCP Homecare who are a team of specialised nurses and will keep your medical team informed of your care every step of the way. This service is backed up by a 24-hour patient helpline. All medications or medical supplies you may need are provided and dispensed through our clinical providers, so you don’t have to worry about sourcing these.
What do patients think?
Patient satisfaction is extremely high due to the convenience and comfort of being treated at home as well as the benefits of one-to-one personal care.
Health in the Home also removes the stress of staying in hospital, no travel or parking charges for visitors and less impact on daily childcare routines & family life.
Check out this short video of our member Ciaran who found the service invaluable:
Customer Satisfaction with TCP Homecare nurses is 100% across all areas of professionalism, clinical expertise, punctuality and communication*. 100% of patients surveyed would be happy to use the service again*. “The nurses were phenomenal – couldn’t recommend them anymore, always great at communicating. They took down my queries and contacted the team for me, it was a sublime service 10/10.”* Some of the services we provide are listed below, however this list is not exhaustive, so please contact us if you have any queries;
- Administration of IV medications including antibiotic and steroids
- Compounded antibiotics.
- Administration of sub cutaneous medications with a view to train the patients.
- Wound care including Negative pressure dressings, conventional dressings.
- Drain management including wound drains, pigtail drains, pleurx drains.
- Phlebotomy services
- Training and education service to support early discharge.
- Chemotherapy disconnections
- IV total parental nutrition training and education.
- Stoma care education and training.
- IV rehydration for Hyperemesis**
To find out more
Ask your GP, consultant or nurse if your care could be delivered using our Health in the Home service. Alternatively, you can contact the Irish Life Customer Care Team on 01 562 5100. The cost of delivering your care is covered by Irish Life Health.
Irish Life Health is the first and only insurer in Ireland to cover hyperemesis care at home. Hyperemesis is a debilitating condition effecting pregnant women with many women needing hospital intervention to ease symptoms. Irish Life Health in partnership with our provider TCP Homecare want to help these women by treating them in the comfort of their own home, rather than travelling (sometimes long distances) to maternity hospitals to be treated. By travelling, it can put the mother under even more undue stress - travelling whilst so unwell, more time off work, transport expenses, childcare issues etc.
- This new benefit allows women to remain in the comfort of their own home to try and maintain a more normal family life as much as possible.
- It is available to women up to 20 weeks gestation in the following geographical locations; Dublin and greater Dublin area, Louth, Meath, Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Galway, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork and Limerick.
- To access the service, you can simply ask your obstetrician to fill in a form and refer you to the at home service.
- TCP Homecare, our provider will deliver all equipment and medication to the member’s own home, all free of charge.
Your consultant remains in charge of your care.
Hyperemesis Care At Home
* This service is provided by TCP Homecare. It is available on all hospital plans. Terms & conditions apply.
Key questions about Health in the Home
Health in the Home Forms
*Source: Health in the Home patient survey, January 2024.
**Referrals for Hyperemesis are accepted from a consultant Obstetrician only.
Access to this service is subject to receipt of a completed referral from your GP/Consultant and subject to approval by Irish Life Health and our clinical providers TCP Homecare. Terms and conditions apply. See your Table of Cover and Membership Handbook for details.
Under this benefit we will cover the costs of a home nursing service, provided by TCP Homecare Limited, where your consultant has approved your early discharge from hospital and has consented to your treatment being continued at home. The home nursing is limited to administering your prescribed treatments such as intravenous antibiotics, specialised dressings such as negative pressure dressings and other therapies. This benefit is only available for home nursing immediately following a medically necessary in-patient stay in a medical facility covered under your plan, or to prevent admission/readmission to a medical facility covered under your plan. This benefit is not available where TCP Homecare Limited cannot provide the home nursing service for any reason including where they are fully booked or where your home is not in an area serviced by TCP Homecare Limited. The receipt of the home nursing service operated by TCP Homecare Limited is subject to TCP Homecare Limited’s terms and conditions and is outside the control of Irish Life Health. This benefit must be pre-authorised by Irish Life Health. Information is correct as at July 2025