Palliative Care In The Home

Most people, given the choice, would spend the end of their life at home. Nationally, two in three people receiving specialist palliative care die as an admitted hospital patient. Palliative Care in the Home helps your service close that gap.

We deliver specialist palliative care where the patient lives – expert symptom and pain management, medication management including subcutaneous infusions and anticipatory prescribing, equipment and consumables, and nursing that scales up as needs change through to terminal care. Our clinicians are contactable 24 hours a day, every day. That matters more here than anywhere else in our work, because it is what lets a family hold on at three in the morning instead of calling an ambulance.

Care is planned with the patient and those close to them, addressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs. Families are not left to work it out alone. We teach carers what to expect and what to do, review the plan as the illness progresses, and coordinate with your palliative care service, the patient’s GP and community providers so everyone is working from the same plan.

We work with public and private healthcare providers to deliver specialist palliative care in the home. Patients remain under the appropriate clinical governance arrangements, with care coordinated closely with their treating teams. Our staff are local, providing continuity at a time when a new face in the house can be genuinely costly, and care that reflects the cultural and family expectations of the community it is delivered in.

For your service, the result is fewer avoidable presentations and admissions in the last weeks of life, palliative beds available for patients who need them, and more people able to spend the end of their life where they want to be.