Hospice at Home Erika Lipscombe Director of Clinical Services/Matron

What is Hospice at Home A team of nurses who provide specialised care for those who are at the end of life (18yrs old and upwards) Enable real choice for patients and families Work in partnership with GP’s/Community Nurses/charities Service that is available 24/ days year

Who is in the team Range of staff, trained and untrained At any one time there is a trained and untrained person on duty to provide care Alongside them is a co ordinator who works to carry out assessments and manage the day to day work – this person enables a responsive service

Who do they care for Provide support to those people who are:- actively dying being discharged from hospital/hospice for end of life care in crisis where a care package is being adjusted or set up in care/disability homes We prevent hospital admissions

What do they do Work in partnership with community team provide personal care provide emotional support administer medication support a family when patient has just died sit with patients at night

2014/15 Cost of whole service - £450K Total referrals (34%) patients from Fareham and Gosport

“They nursed my husband for almost a week, timing visits with such care managing his situation wonderfully well to keep him peaceful”. On the day mum died, the team were with me within minutes and they told me not to panic and helped stay calm. They were amazing! The nursing care was excellent but most reassuring and helpful was having mobile number to call at night. Response to this was excellent. With your help you enabled the four of us to take care of dad at home which was what he really wanted.

Thank you for your input enabling the discharge from E8. I was starting to feel that we would miss our window of opportunity with this lady. If it wasn’t for your team we wouldn’t have managed it so thank you very much. I am very impressed with the Hospice at Home Team. There has been a rapid and reliable response with good communication which has provided invaluable support to the patient, carers and families. I am certain that we have avoided unnecessary hospital admissions by having such a wonderful resource.

What do we need …. Funding:- Ultimately ……… we enable choice for people at end of life save the NHS money by:- –supporting care until care packages are in place –preventing unwanted hospital admissions –delivering care overnight

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