Skip over main navigation
  • Log in
  • Basket: (0 items)
Harlington Hospice
A special kind of care
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Contact us Donate
  • Twitter
Menu
  • Your Care
    • Our services
    • CABS
    • Harlington Care
    • Wellbeing
    • Self Care
    • Refer
    • Professionals
    • Safeguarding
  • Get involved
    • Sponsor a nurse
    • Our Lottery
    • Fundraise
      • Our promise
      • Do your own thing
      • Corporate Fundraising
    • Donate
      • Give a donation now
      • Gift Aid
      • Wills and Legacies
      • The Giving Machine
      • Payroll Giving
      • Regular donations
      • In memoriam
      • Trusts and foundations
      • Friends of Harlington Hospice
  • Our News
  • Shops
    • Our shops
    • Support Our Shops
    • Shop Partnership
  • Work for Us
    • Work for us
    • Volunteer for us
  • About Us
    • Our Trustees
    • Meet our Team
    • Comments and Complaints
    • Governance
    • History
    • Publications
    • Partners
      • H4All
      • Hillingdon Carers Partnership
  • Admin
    • Log in
  • Basket: (0 items)

Professionals

End of Life Support

Harlington Hospice works in close partnership with GPs, district nurses and hospital teams, providing support for patients in need of specialist palliative care. We accept patients Living in or registered with a GP in the London Borough of Hillingdon 

To refer to our services please visit our referrals page 

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative care is provided to patients with life-limiting diseases when their disease is not responsive to curative treatment and the patient has a limited life expectancy.

It’s provided by generalists (GPs, primary care teams or hospital practitioners) when they need basic palliative care or by palliative care  specialists when patients develop complex needs despite the initiation of basic palliative care.

The World Health Organisation defines palliative care as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems.

Palliative care:

  • provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
  • affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;
  • intends neither to hasten or postpone death;
  • integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care;
  • offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death;
  • offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient's illness and in their own bereavement;
  • uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated;
  • will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of  illness;
  • is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications

[email protected]

We care for people with many different types of progressive illnesses such as cancer, heart, lung and kidney diseases and also neurological conditions such as motor neurone disease and dementia. It is the needs of our patients that matter to us rather than the diagnosis.

Our End of Life care is offered completely free of charge. 

Who can refer into our [email protected] Service?

  • GPs
  • District Nurses
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Other Palliative Care professionals
  • Social Services

criteria - [email protected]

  • The patient is aged over 18 and lives in the London Borough of Hillingdon and/or is registered with a GP in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
  • The patient has a progressive disease that cannot be cured, or the patient does not want treatment and they are competent to make that decision. Any life-limiting disease is appropriate for our services including non-cancer conditions.
  • The patient has complex problems including symptom control, emotional, psychological, social or spiritual issues that are important to the patient.
  • The patient is entering the final End of Life phase.
  • Assessments suggest that care of the patient would be best managed through palliative care in the community, through our day services and/or our Hospice at Home services.
  • The patient must have consented to their referral, if they are competent to do so

Harlington Care Services

Harlington Care is a group of services provided by Harlington Hospice for people with long term conditions and high dependency needs.

Harlington Care services are aimed at supporting patients who are at risk of being admitted to hospital when they could stay at home with appropriate care and also patients who could be discharged from hospital because they are medically stable, but are delayed in hospital because they need high dependency care and/or further assessment to support them returning home.

Who can refer into our Harlington Care services?

  • Social Services Teams only

Criteria - Harlington Care Services 

  • The patient is aged over 18 and lives in the London Borough of Hillingdon and/or is registered with a GP in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
  • The patient has a long term condition that requires high dependency care.
  • The patient's needs could be supported by social care in order to prevent admission to hospital.
  • The patient’s needs require high dependency social care support on discharge from hospital.

Wellbeing service - Rehab Team

The rehab team consists of an Occupational Therapist, a Physiotherapist and a Therapy Assistant. We are able to see patient in person either 1:1 or in small groups, via remote zoom sessions or by telephone as appropriate to help palliative care patients cope with the ever changing difficulties that they encounter.

On receiving a referral we would offer an initial holistic assessment to ascertain each patient’s individual needs. We then plan to offer a treatment plan to address their goals. Our interventions include:-  

  • Support to enable coping at home using self-management/coping strategies. This may involve activity planning and goal setting where appropriate to help adjust to changing physical, psychological and emotional issues.  We can also provide support for family and carers and onward referrals/liaison.
  • Mobility - for safe walking and falls prevention.
  • Transfers – on/off bed, chair, toilet, bath and car.
  • Exercises – seated or in standing.
  • Non pharmacological symptom control and management, e.g. for shortness of breath (SOB), anxiety, pain, fatigue/energy conservation, sleep hygiene and relaxation.
  • Activities of Daily Living (ADL) - dressing, washing, bathing, feeding and toileting.
  • Posture and positioning – seating and pressure care.
  • Vocational rehab.
  • Home visits and environmental assessments.
  • Equipment – prescription, i.e. for ADL, wheelchairs and riser recliners.
  • Advance Care Planning (ACP).

We offer open group sessions such as our current fortnightly Social Zoom with our Wellbeing team, offering peer support and connection, or closed group sessions covering specific topics such as seated or standing exercise groups, management of SOB, fatigue, sleep, relaxation and anxiety.

We are very keen to receive referrals to our service of your palliative care patients who you believe would benefit from our input.  As this is a service that we would like to develop we would appreciate any recommendations that you may have to offer.

Referrals – please send to [email protected] with relevant medical info.  To discuss please ring 0208 106 9215.

Other services that may help 

Hospice UK

Marie Curie 

Macmillan



Published: 26th May, 2017

Updated: 13th October, 2021

Author:

Share this page
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Latest

  • Caroline Morison

    Caroline Morison

    Caroline Morison is a Trustee at Harlington Hospice.

  • Choices and the Life-to-Death Transition

    Choices and the Life-to-Death Transition

    Chris West, Wellbeing Services Lead at Harlington Hospice and the Michael Sobell Hospice, spoke to Harry Steele, our Communications Officer, about the importance of discussing end-of-life wishes, the transition from life to death, and the small acts of reassurance that can mean so much to a family.

  • Relaxation Group

    Relaxation Group

    A relaxation group class to help with anxiety management and general wellbeing.

  • Exercise Class

    Exercise Class

    An exercise class designed to maintain strength and mobility.

Related

  • Referrals

    Referrals

    Our services are available to anyone within the London Borough of Hillingdon

Most read

  • Working for us

    Working for us

    Current roles jobs available at Harlington Hospice and partners

  • Volunteer for us

    Volunteer for us

    Giving your time and skills helps the Hospice but is can also be a great experience for you. . .

  • Counselling

    Counselling

    A wide range of counselling services are available

  • Referrals

    Referrals

    Our services are available to anyone within the London Borough of Hillingdon

  • Harlington Care

    Harlington Care

    Harlington Care is part of Harlington Hospice that provides respite care service and carer support throughout the London Borough of Hillingdon

  • History

    Harlington Hospice was Established in 1985 and since then has grown in size to help meet the demand of required services in the borough

  • Ruislip Manor Shop

  • eBay

    eBay

    Harlington Hospice eBay online shop

  • Child and Adolescent Bereavement Service

    Child and Adolescent Bereavement Service

    We offer support to children and young people aged 4–17 years and their families, who live in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

  • Harlington Shop

Latest tweet

020 8759 0453

© 2023 Harlington Hospice
Registered charity number 1099332
Company number 04199504

Lansdowne House, St Peters Way, Harlington, Hayes, UB3 5AB

  • Full sitemap
  • Terms & conditions
  • Privacy policy
  • Admin login
  • My details
  • Log out
Fundraising Regulator logo
Manage Cookie Preferences