Our support at home service expands to meet increasing demand for services.

We are expanding our support at home service due to growing demand. The service, which supports people with a palliative diagnosis and who are approaching the last three months of life, is available to people who are eligible for ‘fast track’ discharge which is supported by Continuing Health Care Funding.

 

The support at home service provides a high standard of essential care and emotional support for people with a life-limiting condition and provides up to three one-hour visits per day. The expansion will see a new office open in Cleator Moor on 25th November to service patients in the south of our region and will complement the scheme which is already being delivered in Allerdale.

 

Rachael McAllister, Home Nursing Services Team Leader, said: “We have been providing the service for 15 months, and in that time, we have seen a significant increase in the number of people being referred in, highlighting a real need for expansion. Our aim is to find the ‘person in the patient’ and allow them to lead on their own holistic care and encourage them to maintain a level of independence whilst in their preferred place of care.”

 

Referrals into the service can be made by healthcare professionals involved in the patient’s care, for example a GP, District Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist, or hospital discharge team.

 

Rachael continues “It’s meeting a real community need and enabling patients to be in their own home and means so much to them and their families. We know it makes such a difference to them.”