services tmp
Service
End of Life / Palliative Care
What does it do?

To provide holistic care for people who are approaching death and to help people to live as well as possible until they die and support family and carers.

Service Delivery Area

Bournemouth and Poole

What are the service opening times?
How can I refer?
[For appropriate professional/clinical referrers only - service users please see below]
What functions/treatment and therapies are offered?

End of life care includes palliative care.  This is for patients with an incurable illness.  Palliative care seeks to make the patient as comfortable as possible by relieving pain and other distressing symptoms while providing psychological, social and spiritual support for the individual, their family and/or carers.

Generalist Palliative Care

The Generalist Palliative Care Service is a team of professionals providing expert end of life palliative care to patients in their own home and supports their families and carers.  It is available to patients over the age of 18 with a life limiting disease (cancer or non-cancer) who are registered with a Bournemouth or Poole GP. The service provides end of life care and complements other palliative care and the long term conditions service.

Specialist Palliative Care

Patients may receive palliative care early in the course of their illness together with other therapies, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy.  

The Specialist Palliative Care Service is based at Forest Holme in Poole.  It consists of a team of professionals who are highly skilled in palliative care services.  They provide support for people living with an advanced, life threathening, complex illness and for their carers.  The service works with GPs, District Nurses, Consultants and other hospital and community staff to make sure patients receive the best possible care.

Which types of illness/medical condition does the service treat?
Who will I see?
As a patient, how do I access services?

Referrals will be made via a hospital, GP or other health professional.

How can I get involved / what support groups are available?
Do you have information for Carers?
Where, when and how often are the clinics?
Who can I contact to find out more?

Generalist Palliative Care

01202 526501 (Bournemouth)

01202 263060 (Poole)

Specialist Palliative Care

01202 442991