Palliative Care
Updated 19th February, 2009
PALLIATIVE CARE - A DEFINITION
Palliative care is the active total care of patients at a time when their disease is no longer responsive to curative treatment and when life expectancy is relatively limited.
Palliative Care
• is a multiprofessional approach to healthcare
• provides relief for patients from pain and other distressing symptoms
• integrates psychological and spiritual care for patients, so that they may come to terms with their own death as fully and constructively as they can
• offers a support system to help the patients live as actively and creatively as possible until death
• helps the family cope during the patient's illness and in bereavement
• affirms life and regards death as a normal rocess; it seeks neither to hasten nor to postpone death
Palliative Care Guidelines
NICE Guidance - Supportive and Palliative Care Strategy
Palliative Care Organisations
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The National Council for Hospice and Palliative Care Services
Help the Hospices is the national charity for the hospice movement. Hospices give unparallelled care to people who are facing the end of life - and to those who love them
Regional Palliative Care Websites
Palliative Care in Northumberland
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This site has been designed to help you find out about palliative care and who provides it in Glasgow.
The Scottish Partnership Agency (SPA)
The Scottish Partnership Agency (SPA) is the national umbrella and representative body for palliative care in
Palliative Care in Powys, Wales
Teaching and Learning in Palliative Care
HELP - Helpful Essential Links to Palliative care
HELP is a problem-based resource for health professionals developed dy
Current Learning In Palliative care. A resourse from St Oswalds Hospice,
Palliative Care Drugs
This site provides essential, comprehensive and independent information for health professionals about the use of drugs in palliative care.
It highlights drugs given for unlicensed indications or by unlicensed routes and the administration of multiple drugs by continuous subcutaneous infusion.
Palliative Care for Carers
The Government's National Strategy for Carers, Caring about carer, was published on 8th February 1999. It states how statutory and voluntary organisations ( including the NHS and local authorities ), employers, Government Departments and volunteers can provide better support to people who care for their friends or relatives who are sick, disabled vulnerable or frail. The documentation can be found at http://www.doh.gov.uk/carers.htm
St Peter and St James Charitable Trust, North Chailey, East Sussex
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QueenscourtHospice, Town Lane, Southport, PR8 6RE
Suggested Reading
Claude Regnard, Sue Tempest A guide to Symptom Relief in Advanced Disease Radcliffe Medical Press Order Today!
Peter Kaye Breaking Bad News EPL Publications Order Today!
Robert Twycross, Andrew Wilcock, Sarah Thorp PCF1: Palliative Care Formulary Radcliffe Medical Press Order Today!
Related Sites
Association of Children's Hospices
The Child Bereavement Trust is a national
By listening to bereaved children and parents, The Child Bereavement Trust leads the way in improving the care offered by professionals to grieving families in the immediate crisis and in the many months following the death of someone important in their lives.
The charity provides specialised training and support for professionals to improve their response to the needs of bereaved families. The Child Bereavement Trust produces resources and information for children and families and all the professionals who come into contact with them in the course of their work.
Sheffield Palliative Care Studies Group
Palliative Care and Architecture
American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Online Guide to Cancer Resources
Aims to help the public and professionals access "accurae cancer-related information"
Complementary Therapy
Research Council for Complementary Medicine (UK)
Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health (USA)