In this section
Palliative Care
- Accessing palliative care drugs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Carer medication diary
- Clinical guidelines for symptom control in patients with COVID-19
- Consent form for patient or carer administration of subcutaneous medication
- Fast track discharge flowchart
- Fast track funding discharge leaflet
- Guide to patient or carer administration of subcutaneous medication
- Guidelines for use of Clonazepam for pain control in Palliative Care patients
- My future wishes - easy read version
- Opioid dose conversion chart, syringe driver doses, rescue/prn doses and opioid patches
- Opioid substitution treatment pathway
- Options for symptom management in last days if there is no syringe driver or manpower to give injectable drugs
- Palliative care drugs in community pharmacy
- Palliative care formulary
- Protocol for patient or carer administration of subcutaneous medication
- Rapid Deteriorating Patient Discharge Checklist
- Steroid summary prescribing tips
- Symptom control guidelines
- Symptom control in the last days of life
- Symptom management in Palliative Care (Yorkshire and Humber)
- Referral and discharge guidelines
- Referral form for Specialist Palliative Care Services
- Unlicensed medicines
Contact numbers for York and Scarborough Palliative Care Teams (7 day service between 8am-4pm)
- York Hospital Palliative Care Team - 01904 725835
- York Community Palliative Care Team - 01904 777770
- St Leonards Hospice, York - 01904 708553
- Scarborough Hospital Palliative Care Team - 01723 342446
- Scarborough Community Palliative Care Team - 01723 351421
- St Catherine’s Hospice, Scarborough - 01723 351421
Out of hours
- York St Leonards Hospice - 01904 708553
- Scarborough Pallcall St Catherine’s Hospice - 01723 354506