How We Work With Others

The Hospice provides specialist advice and support to people with life limiting illness, their family and friends as well as the other health and social care professionals involved in their care.

To ensure we can share our expertise with as many people as need our services, in the main, we aim to complement the care that others provide rather than to doing it all ourselves. Sometimes we may also take on responsibility for coordinating your care, but often those that know you best such as your primary care team (GP and District Nurse) or your hospital team (Consultant or Specialist Nurse) will take the lead.

Whatever our role in your care, we will aim to communicate as well as we can with you, ensuring that the care we provide or organise meets your needs and priorities. You may have someone else who is close to you who you also want us to talk to; with your permission we are happy to have these discussions.

In order to ensure that you get the best, most joined up care, we will also seek your permission to communicate with the other members of the health and social care team, this may include face to face and telephone communication as well as written communication, usually when something changes.

As well as direct care and coordination, the Hospice often advises and educates other health and social care professionals about how to care for people at this difficult time in their lives, sometimes we may have students working alongside us so that they can develop their practice. Please let us know if you are not happy to have a student observe at any time during your care.