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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
We provide a seven day palliative care service between the hours of 9am until 5pm.