Macmillan Palliative Care team

Key Staff

Consultants : 

  •        Dr Debra Swann
  •        Dr Holly Young  Physician Associate:
  •        Amy Moffatt

Nursing team

Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Lead Nurse

  •        Caroline Adams

Clinical Nurse Specialists 

  •        Kate Burridge 
  •        Tina Lawton
  •        Louise Renton
  •        Ayshea Stacey
  •        Stella Whitehouse
  •        Nicola Waterman

Advanced Care Planning Facilitator

  •         Tamara Wright  Social Worker:
  •        Paul Etheridge

  MDT Coordinator/Team Administrator:

  •        Kelly Curant

 

Monday to Sunday (Including Bank Holidays) 9am –5pm

Answerphone:  020 8401 3000 ext 4906

Bleeps:             320, 419

E-mail:              ch-tr.palliativecareteam@nhs.net

Out of hours: An advisory service for health care professionals is provided by Royal Trinity Hospice on 020 7787 1000. .

 

About palliative care in hospital 

Palliative care is the active total care of any patient who has a life limiting illness regardless of the stage of the illness. This includes patients who have cancer and also other non-cancer conditions that have a life-limiting diagnosis.

The Macmillan Palliative Care Team is a team of nurses, a social worker and medical consultants who have specialist training and experience in controlling symptoms like pain and nausea associated with chronic illness. The Team will work with other professionals involved in the care of the patient to improve any symptoms the patient may have and will also offer emotional and psychological support to both patients and families. The aim of palliative care is to achieve the best quality of life for patients and their carers.

We support staff caring for patients who are spending the end of their life in the hospital, and their families, to ensure they are given the correct level of care and dignity at the end of their life.  We work to ensure that patients and family members are involved in decisions about their treatment and care and that all communication is clear, sensitive and compassionate.

The Palliative Care Team is available to see adult patients on all in-patient areas of the hospital and is not based on any specific ward. We provide:

  •  pain and symptom control advice
  •  support for those facing the end of life in hospital
  •  emotional and psychological support for patients and their carers
  •  liaise with our community palliative care team colleagues to refer patients for on-going specialist palliative care support when they leave
  • hospital
  •  advice on complex discharge planning for patients known to the palliative care team
  •  liaise with local hospice colleagues to arrange hospice transfer for patients when appropriate Find out what you can expect from end of life care .

 

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