Why Map a Nurse exists

The unique function of the nurse is to assist in the recovery of the patient, contributing to their health and wellbeing.

To be a good nurse means to possess a wide variety of qualities that fit together to achieve a single goal: the health of the patient. A nurse doesn't only bring detailed medical knowledge, but a genuine passion for helping someone reach a state of health and comfort.

We're passionate about the NHS, and fiercely protective of both the staff working within it and the patients it looks after.

In an ideal world, no one would need a doctor or have medical needs. But everyone, eventually, has to deal with their health: minor and major injuries, GP appointments, hospital visits, wound clinics, walk-in centres. We're fortunate if we rarely need any of that. But sometimes something happens - a minor injury, a course of treatment, a recovery that needs looking after - and what's missing isn't urgent hospital care, it's someone qualified to help, close to home.

In 1860, Florence Nightingale laid the foundations of professional nursing with the nursing school she established at St Thomas' Hospital in London. From that point on, the UK has remained at the forefront of nursing practice - care with medication, wound care, dressing changes, blood pressure monitoring, treatment after surgery, delivered by people trained to give it properly.

Inspired by that legacy, Map a Nurse wants to help people get the right care and medical assistance directly at home, saving the time and stress of a trip to A&E for something that doesn't need to be treated there. We connect people with qualified, independent nurses for long-term treatment, short-term care, or a one-off visit. Part of our aim is also to help take pressure off A&E departments, so they're free to focus on the people who need them most urgently.

We know healthcare access isn't always easy or affordable. It's a difficult problem, and we don't claim to have solved it. But we want to keep making it a little more accessible, one visit at a time.