Palliative care services
Some of the services available for people with cancer and their family concentrate on improving wellbeing. This is known as palliative care. It concentrates on controlling pain and other symptoms linked with cancer and also on meeting social, emotional and spiritual needs. These services are especially important if cancer cure seems unlikely. However, palliative care services can be helpful to most cancer patients at any point in their illness. Palliative care services may be provided at home, in hospital, or sometimes in special units called hospices. Hospices provide a range of services, including symptom control and terminal care for patients who are in the final stages of their illness.
Link:End of life care
Produced by:NHS Choices
Advice on making the most of the time you have left, following a terminal diagnosis including practical and spiritual issues. There are links to booklets on advance care planning and getting your affairs in order
Link:Hospice information hub
Produced by:Help the hospices
From this section you can access information about UK hospice care and how to find a hospice along with information about international palliative care and overseas services.
Contact: Hospice information service
Telephone: 020 7520 8222.
Page last edited: 24 October 2011
