Our palliative care services

We provide a seven day palliative care service offering:

• Specialist assessment of a patients’ individual needs
• Expert advice on symptom management
• Time for the patient and their family or carers to talk through thoughts and feelings about their illness
• Signposting to access information about benefits
• Liaison with other teams involved in the patients’ care
• Practical solutions to commonly experienced problems
• Future and advance care discussions
• Spiritual and cultural support
• Outpatient clinic
• Signposting to other services offered by Saint Catherine’s Hospice: Community Specialist Palliative Care Team, Care Home Team, Day Care Service, Lymphoedema Clinic, Complimentary Therapies, Out of Hours Advice Helpline (Palcall)
• Close links with the hospital research team
• Palliative Care and End of Life Education and training