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CHC Nurses Agency Network: Supporting CHC Agency Nurses Across the UK
A Dedicated UK Network for Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Agency Nurses
The CHC Nurses Agency Network is a specialist UK-wide community created by CHC nurses, for CHC nurses. We connect agency nurses working in NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and community services, helping you build professional contacts, access support, and grow your CHC knowledge and confidence.
We understand that only another nurse truly understands the pressures, responsibilities, and emotional impact of nursing. That’s why our network offers a safe, confidential space where CHC agency nurses can share experiences, ask questions, and access practical guidance 24/7 through our invite-only social media groups and events.
With a core network of around 500 CHC agency nursing professionals, many of our members form long-lasting friendships, collaborate on complex cases, and support each other through the unique challenges of CHC practice.
What the CHC Nurses Agency Network Offers
A Supportive Professional Community for CHC Agency Nurses
Our network is a place to relax, connect and feel understood as a CHC agency nurse. Members regularly discuss real-world issues such as workload pressures, commissioning challenges, CHC funding disputes, and working across multiple agencies and ICBs.
Through our private online groups, you can ask for peer advice, share resources, and gain reassurance from nurses facing similar clinical and professional situations across the UK CHC landscape.
Specialist CHC & Community DoLS Training and Peer Knowledge-Sharing
The CHC Nurses Agency Network focuses strongly on Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and Community Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) practice. We help nurses strengthen their understanding of CHC eligibility, assessments, MDT processes, Decision Support Tool (DST) documentation, and community DoLS responsibilities.
We share training opportunities, case examples and best practice through live sessions, online discussions and shared resources, so that agency nurses stay up to date with the latest guidance, decision-making frameworks, and legal requirements across CHC and community care.
Regular Events to Bring CHC Nurses Together
We run regular online and in-person events designed to bring our CHC agency nurse community together. These include informal meet-ups, discussion groups, themed webinars and focused Q&A sessions on core CHC topics such as assessments, fast-track, reviews, appeals and commissioning.
Our events create space to build connections, share learning, reduce professional isolation and improve confidence when working across complex CHC and community pathways as an agency nurse.
Confidential, Invite-Only Social Media Groups
Members of the CHC Nurses Agency Network gain access to several confidential, invite-only social media groups where professional issues are openly discussed 24/7, 365 days a year. These groups are moderated and focused on CHC, safeguarding, complex community care and related topics.
Within these spaces you can safely raise clinical queries (without sharing identifiable patient information), explore tricky CHC scenarios, and get honest, practical input from experienced CHC colleagues across different regions and organisations.
Professional Development for CHC Agency Nurses
Strengthening Your CHC Skills, Confidence and Career
The CHC Nurses Agency Network is committed to helping agency nurses develop their careers in CHC. We signpost training opportunities, share templates and tools, and provide informal mentoring through peer relationships formed within the group.
Our community supports you in building your expertise in CHC assessment, care planning, coordination and review, so you can feel more confident in your role, add value to commissioning teams, and progress towards senior CHC or case management positions if desired.
Sharing Best Practice in Person-Centred CHC Care
Members regularly exchange examples of person-centred care planning for people with complex needs, including those with learning disabilities, dementia, neurological conditions and long-term physical health needs under CHC.
By sharing real-world experiences and evidence-based approaches, our network helps CHC agency nurses improve outcomes, maintain dignity and independence for patients, and contribute to more consistent, high-quality CHC services across the UK.
Keeping Up to Date with CHC Policy, Guidance and Regulatory Expectations
We help CHC agency nurses stay informed about policy changes, ICB guidance, legal judgments, and CQC expectations that affect CHC practice and community nursing. Members share updates, interpretations and implications for day-to-day work in agency roles.
This collective knowledge helps agency nurses remain compliant, documentation-strong and inspection-ready when working within NHS and independent sector environments delivering CHC-funded care.
Why Join the CHC Nurses Agency Network?
A Network Built by CHC Nurses, for CHC Nurses
Our community is led and shaped by experienced CHC agency nurses who understand the realities of working across multiple organisations, managing complex caseloads and navigating CHC processes day in, day out.
This lived experience ensures that the advice, support and conversations within the network are always practical, relevant and grounded in real-world CHC practice.
Peer Support That Reduces Stress and Isolation
Agency nursing within CHC can feel isolating, especially when moving between teams, ICBs and providers. Our network gives you a consistent peer group you can turn to for support, reflection and professional camaraderie.
Many members say the network has helped them feel less alone, more resilient and more able to manage the daily pressures that come with complex CHC work.
A Place to Build Long-Term Professional Friendships
Over time, many CHC Nurses Agency Network members become close colleagues and friends, supporting each other through career changes, complex cases and personal challenges.
These relationships often last for years, providing a trusted circle of CHC professionals you can rely on for honest feedback, shared learning and mutual encouragement.
How to Join the CHC Nurses Agency Network
If you are a CHC agency nurse or a nurse working regularly in NHS Continuing Healthcare, community complex care or CHC-funded services, we welcome you to join our network.
New members are invited into our private social media groups and are welcome to attend our events, contribute to discussions and tap into the collective experience of around 500 CHC agency nursing professionals.
To express interest in joining, please contact us via our website or social channels, and we will guide you through the simple membership process and group access.
FAQs
- What is the CHC Nurses Agency Network? The CHC Nurses Agency Network is a UK-based community that connects and supports agency nurses working in Continuing Healthcare and community complex care.
- Who can join the CHC Nurses Agency Network? Registered nurses who work in CHC, community complex care or related agency roles across the UK are welcome to join.
- Is membership to the network free? Yes, joining our core community and social media groups is currently free for eligible CHC nurses.
- How do I access the private social media groups? Once your membership is confirmed, you will receive invite-only links to our confidential social media groups.
- Do you provide formal CHC training courses? We focus on peer learning, shared resources and events, and we also signpost members to formal CHC and DoLS training opportunities.
- Can I ask clinical or case-related questions in the group? Yes, you can ask case-related questions as long as you do not share any identifiable patient information and follow professional guidelines.
- Do you run regular events for CHC agency nurses? We host regular online and in-person events, including webinars, discussions and informal meet-ups for CHC agency nurses.
- Is the network only for NHS CHC nurses? No, we welcome CHC agency nurses working with NHS organisations, local authorities, independent providers and other commissioned CHC services.
- Will joining the network help my professional development? Yes, our community supports your CHC learning, confidence, networking and long-term career development in continuing healthcare.
- How can I get started with the CHC Nurses Agency Network? Contact us through our website or social channels to express interest, and we will share the next steps to join our CHC nurse community.
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