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