{"id":546,"date":"2024-11-29T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/referral-pathways\/referral-pathways-palliative-care\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:54:11","slug":"referral-pathways-palliative-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/referral-pathways-palliative-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Referral Pathways: Palliative Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"support-available-from-specialist-palliative-care-services\">Support available from Specialist Palliative Care Services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Quality palliative care is delivered in care homes every day. Care homes with onsite registered nurses have the knowledge and skills to support residents in the last weeks and days of life. Care homes without onsite nurses work in collaboration with community nursing services who provided the nursing and end of life care required. This maybe the district nursing service or care home support teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some situations, care homes and health and social care services may require support and advice from community specialist palliative care services. Specialist palliative care services offer telephone advice, a single assessment visit or a period of specialist care according to need. This support will always be provided in collaboration with care home and health and social care staff and care home support teams. Alongside discussion with the resident&#8217;s GP referral can be made for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\" class=\"wp-block-list has-regular-font-size\">\n<li>Complex end of life care needs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uncontrolled pain or other symptoms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complex physical, psychological, spiritual or family needs that cannot be met by the existing care team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Palliative Care please see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/supporting-residents-needs\/services\/services-palliative-care\/\">Palliative Care Services<\/a>&nbsp;page.<br>For Education and Training on Palliative Care please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/info\/education-and-training\/palliative-care-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palliative Care Education<\/a> Page<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-light-accent-green-background-color has-background\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:0\">Care Homes, Care\u00a0Home Support\u00a0Teams and District\u00a0Nurses can find advice about referral to specialist palliative care services from:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-plum-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-light-accent-plum-background-color has-background\">There is a single Point of Access number for <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Edinburgh, Midlothian and West Lothian <\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <strong>01314702253<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Further information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RefHelp<\/a> &#8211; see below for details on how to access:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"east-lothian\">For East Lothian<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;East Lothian Care Home Support Team<br>Advanced Nurse Practitioner&nbsp;&#8211; Monday-Thursday 8-6pm&nbsp;07971083240<br>or Nurse Practitioners- Monday &#8211; Friday&nbsp;8-6pm&nbsp;07811710794.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">East Lothian Community Palliative Care Team:&nbsp;01620 642710<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-green-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"referral-to-a-specialist-palliative-care-service\">Referral to a Specialist Palliative Care Service<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Marie Curie referral pathways can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NHS Lothian RefHelp website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Once you have landed on the page you need to click the &#8216;Guidelines First Aid Bag&#8217; on the top of the page:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2-1024x439.png\" alt=\"Untitled design\" class=\"wp-image-11137\" style=\"width:613px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2-1024x439.png 1024w, https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2-1536x658.png 1536w, https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2-1520x651.png 1520w, https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2.png 1611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This will then provide a drop down menu to the left of the screen where you can navigate to <strong>Palliative Care<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Please note that this is an NHS Lothian Link.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>St Columba&#8217;s Hospice community team<\/strong><br>Tel: 0131 551 1381 (hospice reception)<br>Email: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:SCH.ACCESS@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk\">SCH.ACCESS@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk<\/a><br>Website:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcolumbashospice.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.stcolumbashospice.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>West Lothian community palliative care team:<br><\/strong>Tel: 01506 523531<br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:mccc.westlothian@nhs.net\">mccc.westlothian@nhs.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><strong>East Lothian Macmillan Team:<\/strong><br>Tel: 01620 642710<br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:EastLothianMacMillanTeam@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk\">EastLothianMacMillanTeam@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-light-accent-plum-background-color has-background\"><strong>The Lothian Palliative Care Consultant is available for advice out of hours on 07515 199019<\/strong><br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-grey-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">For information on information relating to palliative care referral processes and training please see the following webpages.<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/info\/supporting-residents-needs\/holistic-care\/services-palliative-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palliative Care: Service and Information<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/info__trashed\/education-and-training\/palliative-care-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palliative Care: Education and training &#8211; 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