Palliative care
The Adult Specialist Palliative Care Team aim to provide the best care possible to improve the quality of life for people, and those important to them, who are living with an illness that can no longer be cured.
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is support for people living with an illness that cannot be cured. It aims to make you as comfortable as possible by managing pain and other distressing symptoms, while also supporting your emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
Some people worry that palliative care means stopping all treatment, but this is not the case. You can still receive medical or surgical treatments alongside palliative care if they may help you feel better.
Although it can include end of life care, palliative care is much broader and can last for longer. Having palliative care doesn’t necessarily mean that you are likely to die soon, some people have palliative care for years.
Palliative care is often delivered by your usual care team, wherever you are being cared for, be those nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals on a ward or department in hospital, or in your home by district nurses, community health professionals and your GP. If staff feel they need more specialist advice, they will ask the Specialist Palliative Care Team to be involved, with your permission.
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