Our vision and expert approach
Our vision is of a world in which all people have access to skilled, compassionate end of life care at the time that is right for them and in the place of their choice.
We are dedicated to improving the experience of dying. This means supporting people to live every moment and focusing everything we do on the care of the patient and their family - through our direct care services and programmes of education and support for other care providers.
Our expert approach
Our approach to end of life care has, at its heart, an understanding of the needs of the whole person and their family because when a person is dying the whole family can be deeply affected.
Sometimes people think that by ‘end of life’ we mean the last few weeks of a person’s life. This simply isn’t the case – we encourage early referrals so that we can get to know our patients as individuals and help them to live life to the full for whatever time is left – that might be a year or more, months or weeks.
Our care is centred on the unique physical, emotional and practical needs of the individual. Our tailored care programmes respect personal and cultural wishes. In particular we:
- Help people to regain the confidence they need to maintain independence for as long as they want.
- Give people real choices about their care and empower them to make their own decisions for as long as they can.
- Are flexible and responsive to what may be rapidly changing needs.
- Our skilled and experienced staff understand that living with a life-threatening illness will raise many questions and worries and we take time to listen to our patients, their families and carers.
We help our patients by:
- Working closely with them to develop a personal care plan tailored to individual needs.
- Providing specialist information, advice and support and help with pain management and other troublesome symptoms.
- Coordinating all the different services involved in a person’s care at home including GPs, district nurses, hospitals and social services.
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