More than a carer
A specialist provider of home care services for people with complex care needs.
HASCS challenges the norm in the complex care industry
HASCS was founded in 2017, by Riza Tongson Espe born with the vision to create a truly nurse-led service. We provide care for people of all ages living with spinal injuries, physical disabilities and life-limiting conditions with a complex care plan tailored specifically for their care needs and personal preferences.
We place our core values at the heart of the work we do, from our health care assistants and nurses to our head office function. This one team approach ensures that every aspect of our service is aligned. We strive to be accountable to ourselves, our service users, and our community in everything we do.
Discover HASCS
Your local complex care company
The ethos of HASCS is to challenge the norm in complex care provision and be clinically led rather than business led. Doing this allows us to deliver the person-centred care we are passionate about and ensures that our service users get the best possible outcomes, aligned with their preferences.
Meet the team
The people who care for you
With the support of a dedicated and professional team, who are employed by a company built on a foundation of extensive clinical care experience, we make sure that our services provide people with safe, compassionate, and effective care.
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Riza Tongson-Espe
Chief Executive Officer
Riza was born and bred in the Philippines. She is a specialist Intensive Care Nurse registered in the three countries: the Philippines, the United States and the UK. Riza immigrated to the UK in January 2001 after being head hunted, and was the first Filipino Nurse to work at the University Hospital Southampton’s General Intensive Care Unit.
Determined to make an impact on the way care is delivered to individuals in their own home and to drive change to the conventional approach in complex care, Riza went on to develop the HASCS care model – bespoke, person-centred, ethical, and truly clinically led care.
Riza leads our Rapid Mobilisation Team and works actively in the field supporting initial assessments and risk assessments, attending Multidisciplinary Teams meetings and leading on discharge planning.
Riza enjoys travelling to different parts of the world and supporting charitable work for the elderly and orphans with an emphasis on making positive change.
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Kate Ganzon
Clinical Director
Kate has been in the healthcare profession for over 10 years, working in both Adult and Paediatric nursing. She is a caring, flexible and driven individual, with a pro-active approach to her work which she extends to the care she delivers to her patients.
Apart from having experienced years of bedside nursing, she has had the responsibility of undertaking the role of Clinical Educator at her previous hospital setting in the UK and becoming a HASCS Nurse Manager before being promoted to Clinical Services Manager and now to her current role as Clinical Director.
Kate is a qualified registered nurse in the Philippines, Middle East and in the UK.
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Sydney Masawi
Clinical Director
Sydney has been with HASCS since January 2024. He has had a varied nursing career path across over 20 years, starting in the Emergency Department at Luton and Dunstable Hospital after graduation. He then moved on to Primary Healthcare within the HM Prison Service where he specialised in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. That was followed by his answer to the calling to join the Defence Medical Services as a nurse officer with Royal Air Force Nursing Service during the two conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. During that time, he specialised in Emergency Care Nursing before transferring to Royal Navy Nursing Service.
On leaving the Defence Medical Services, after 2 tours of Afghanistan (1st time as a trauma nurse in the Emergency Department at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province followed by 2nd tour on the Medical Emergency Response Team, MERT again in Helmand Province) and 1 tour of Sierra Leonne on the RFA Argus as part of the UK’s response to the fight against the Ebola outbreak, Sydney then joined South Central Ambulance Service, NHS111 as a remote clinical advisor. This was followed by a move to the Integrated Urgent Care Services with the out of hours service as a clinical supervisor.nIn between time, he also worked in the Social Care Sector for a nursing home delivering nursing care to the elderly.
Following this, Sydney then joined HASCS to explore more into complex care delivery, utilising the clinical, leadership and managerial skills and experience gained over the years in all the clinical settings that he has worked in.
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Ruth Morris
Paediatric Clinical Director
Ruth has been with HASCS since June 2024. She qualified as a children’s nurse in 2004 and started her career at a children’s hospital in London before moving to Hampshire and working within Paediatric Intensive Care. Over the years, Ruth has had a varied and extensive nursing career, including working as Clinical Nurse Specialist (Paediatric Asthma & Allergy), named nurse for safeguarding, Head of Nursing and Lead Nurse for Children for a large NHS hospital trust.
Ruth is highly passionate about supporting children and young people with additional needs and has worked on various NHS England projects. Prior to commencing her role with HASCS, Ruth was working as a complex care nurse, providing direct nursing care for children with highly complex needs. Outside of work, Ruth enjoys travelling, exploring and spending time with her son.
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Denlord Pascual
Head of Mobilisation and Assessment
Denlord became a Registered Nurse in the Philippines in 2010. He arrived in the UK in 2018 and obtained his NMC pin the same year. Denlord has worked on many different wards in the NHS, but mainly in Gastro and Hepatology. He has also attended the well-established Liver Course at Kings College London.
Denlord made an instant impact. having joined HASCS as a Rapid Response Nurse in June 2021, he was then promoted to Regional Nurse Manager in August 2021. Denlord now makes up part of the senior leadership team, previously as Clinical Services Manager, and now as Head of Mobilisation and Assessment.
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David Dalton
Rapid Mobilisation Lead
As Rapid Mobilisation Lead, David is a part of our growing Rapid Response Team. Our teams of peripatetic support workers provide a valuable flexible resource, allowing HASCS to meet the changing needs of the organisation.
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Thomas Harris
Rapid Mobilisation Team Leader
Thom has worked for HASCS since November 2019.
He is the Rapid Mobilisation Team Leader, our Rapid Mobilisation Team is our specialist team of healthcare professionals, a valuable and flexible resource at HASCS. They allow us to meet the changing needs of the organisation. Whether covering for a staffing shortfall or being involved in the set up and delivery of new care packages, their roles are varied and rewarding.
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Venj Ang
Senior Clinical Educator
Venj has been with HASCS since May 2022. He is a registered Nurse back in the Philippines with a background in Clinical Education in Nursing, Clinical Nursing particularly in Critical Care, Neurology, Surgery and Tropical Infectious Diseases.
Venj arrived in the UK in the same year he started at HASCS. His first role at HASCS was Healthcare Assistant in West Sussex, he was then promoted to Team Leader in the region. He then joined the head office team as a clinical educator in February 2023. Venj now makes up part of the management team as the Senior Clinical Educator in the Education and Clinical Excellence Department.
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Pete Carino
Clinical Educator
Pete has been with HASCS since October 2022. He is an essential part of our team, and the Education and Clinical Excellence Department. As a Clinical Educator, he is responsible for training new healthcare assistants and nurses to the exceptional HASCS standard.
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Candice Cepeda
Nurse Manager
Candice has been with HASCS since March 2021. As a Regional Nurse Manager (RNM), she is the point of call for a handful of service users, and their care teams, in the Cornwall region. All our RNM’s are Registered Nurses, with a varied work background.
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Jervin Venecario
Nurse Manager
Jervin has been with HASCS since May 2023. As a Regional Nurse Manager (RNM), he is the point of call for a handful of service users, and their care teams, in the Sussex and Buckinghamshire area. All our RNM’s are Registered Nurses, with a varied work background.
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Tracey O’Halloran
Nurse Manager
Tracey has been with HASCS since June 2023. As a Regional Nurse Manager (RNM), she is the point of call for a handful of service users, and their care teams, in the Dorset area. All our RNM’s are Registered Nurses, with a varied work background.
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Lisa Dalton
Nurse Manager
Lisa has been with HASCS since November 2023. As a Regional Nurse Manager (RNM), she is the point of call for a handful of service users, and their care teams, in the Dorset and Wiltshire area. All our RNM’s are Registered Nurses, with a varied work background.
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Jakub Suski
Nurse Manager
Jakub has been with HASCS since November 2023. As a Regional Nurse Manager (RNM), he is the point of call for a handful of service users, and their care teams, in the Hampshire, Dorset and Sussex area. All our RNM’s are Registered Nurses, with a varied work background.
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Max Montaniel
Nurse Manager
Max has been with HASCS since April 2024. As a Regional Nurse Manager (RNM), he is the point of call for a handful of service users, and their care teams, in the West Sussex area. All our RNM’s are Registered Nurses, with a varied work background.
Our vision & values
Our Core Values support our vision and shape our company culture. They give us something to work towards collectively and set us apart in the industry. Every member of our team, from senior leadership to entry-level roles, become accountable for their own decisions by asking a simple question: does this decision reflect our values? Our values provide purpose, meaning, and direction to the way in which we deliver care.
We are courageous. We challenge conventional practices to ensure the highest quality of care. This value embodies our unwavering commitment to push beyond boundaries, innovate fearlessly, and advocate tirelessly for those entrusted to our care. With courage as our guiding force, we stand ready to transform the future landscape of care, one fearless step at a time.
We are collaborative. At HASCS, it isn’t a word we throw around lightly, we believe in the power of teamwork and partnership to achieve exceptional outcomes for those under our care. We understand that by joining forces with service users, families, internal and external healthcare professionals, we can create an environment where everyone’s expertise and perspectives are listened to and respected.
We are honest. Honesty is more than just being truthful; it’s creating an environment of transparency and authenticity. We provide clear and accurate information, ensuring that our service users and their families have the knowledge and confidence they need to make informed decisions about their care. From the moment job candidates engage with us, we are committed to providing accurate information about our organisation, culture, and expectations. We believe in presenting a realistic picture of what it’s like to work with us, including both the opportunities and challenges that come with working in complex care.
We are responsive. We react quickly and positively. Responsiveness builds trust, increases productivity, and most importantly garners respect from both peers and service users. We don’t overpromise, we will be honest in what we can and cannot deliver. From the initial assessment, always carried out by an experienced registered nurse, we will start to design your complex care package with you. Considering your likes, dislikes, wishes and aspirations.
We are caring. We believe in fostering meaningful connections, taking the time to listen, understand, and address needs and concerns with sensitivity and kindness. In every aspect of our work, we strive to create a nurturing and supportive environment where our service users feel safe, valued, and empowered to live their best possible lives. Whether it’s assisting with daily activities, providing medical care, or simply offering a listening ear, we approach every task with the same level of care and dedication.
We are responsible. We understand the importance of upholding the trust placed in us by our service users and their loved ones. Providing complex care within the home is not only a responsibility, but a privilege too. It means consistently demonstrating integrity through actions, not just words. Taking ownership of commitments, delivering high-quality work, and standing accountable when things don’t go as planned.
Testimonials
What people have to say
Your feedback fuels our passion and keeps us striving to do better every day. Thank you for being a part of our amazing complex care community.
“I am writing to express my appreciation for the level of care and instantaneous action you have taken. Your responsiveness made a significant difference and the quality of service and genuine concern you and your team demonstrated truly represents the highest standards of care. Your collective efforts have been greatly appreciated. Thank you once again for going above and beyond.”
NHS Dorset | Dorset, UK
“I would like to extend my gratitude to the company for the kindness and support that they have given us during our start here in the UK. We also want to thank the welfare and recruitment team and the HR team, as well as the accounts and payroll team for the prompt responses and actions regarding our queries and requests. It’s highly appreciated. Cheers!”
Carer | Falmouth, UK
“It is really refreshing to have such a professional treatment from HASCS and that there is a service out there that really cares and can truly manage complex care. We would just like to say thank you for your incredible service!”
Family of Service User | Cornwall, UK