What is Hospice at
Home?
Our Hospice at Home is a service specially designed and
developed to extend hospice care into the community to support
patients with palliative care needs.
Care is based on the Hospice philosophy which values each
patient as an individual and recognises the need for family/carer
support.
Hospice at Home operates as a partnership between Rossendale
Hospice, Social Services and East Lancashire Primary care
Trust. Care packages include social care, a combination
of both social and nursing care leading to enhanced specialist
palliative nursing care, working closely with District Nurse,
Macmillan Nurses GP’s and Social Workers.
Our Hospice at Home service is led by a trained Nurse Co-ordinator
who leads a team of Health Care Assistants and ad-hoc Registered
General Nurses. All staff are specially trained in caring
for patients and their families/carers with Cancer and other
life limiting illnesses.
The Aims of Hospice at Home
• To give more choice and support to those who wish
to live, be cared for, and to die at home
• To give the highest possible standards of nursing
care, offering advice on pain and symptom control, as well
as emotional and practical support for the patient and their
carers
• To work closely with the patients District Nurse
who will remain the key worker, GP at all times so that
seamless and holistic palliative care may be given to the
patient and their carers
What Hours is Hospice at Home Available?
Care is delivered seven days a week including Bank
Holidays. Night care is available subject to individual
patient needs and staff availability
Packages of care are designed to supplement maximum District
Nurse and Marie Curie input
What is the Referral Criteria?
• The patient must agree to the referral
• The patient must be an adult over the age of 18
and reside in Rossendale
• The patient must have palliative care needs, with
cancer or specified non-malignant disease (operational policy
available upon request)
Please note that our telephone number
changed when we moved premises in April 2010 and is now:
01706 253633
Option 1 – Day Therapy
Option 2 – Hospice at Home
Option 3 – Fundraising
Option 4 – Other enquiries and Administration
Please feel free to download a copy of our new
patient literature
 Hospice
At Home PDF guide
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