Description
The Marie Curie supportive care at home service provides practical, emotional and physical support to patients and their carers when suffering from a life-limiting illness. Patients may be in hospital/hospice and express a wish to go home or when at home may require additional care and support.
The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and aims to provide individualised packages of care offering the choice for patients to be cared for at home where possible. This may include additional care and support when the patient is approaching the last days of life. Examples include:
- Provision of a staff member who can stay with the patient overnight to allow the family/carer to get some rest.
- Provision of a qualified nurse to stay with the patient to provide pain/symptom management.
Documents and leaflets
Why would someone choose the service?
- When a person is approaching the last days of their life, the supportive care at home service aims to support them and their family in their preferred place of care, enabling the person to die at home in their own familiar surroundings
- To provide a supportive presence at home, with care provided by appropriately trained staff
- To provide care which enables the family to go out or have some much-needed rest at night
- To provide a quick response when a person is in the last few days of their life, offering care that is tailor-made to the person’s needs
- The supportive care at home service was the winner of the Trust’s Excellence in Clinical Care Award in 2012
- Positive feedback from carers and families: “Thank you so much for all your help and support, without this my mum wouldn’t have been able to achieve her wish of dying at home, you provided care at such a challenging time”
Opening Times
The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Office hours are Monday - Sunday 9am - 5pm
Contact Details
Phone number: 01226 645281
Mobile number:
Address: Silkstone Health Centre High Street Silkstone S75 4JN
Locations
Address details:
Barnsley
Other Details
Eligibility: Referrals accepted from: AHPs, Consultants, GPs, Hospital staff, Local authority staff, Other NHS services, Other Trust services Referral criteria: - The service is available to patients registered with a Barnsley GP. It is for people who have a life-limiting illness and are already receiving care and support from other services, for example, district nursing service. You can find out more about the district nursing service by searching for them in the service directory - People who are approaching or are in the last days of their life and require support to die in their preferred place of care.
Published: 26 February 2025