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Healthcare professionals

Supporting you to help patients access the right care earlier, improve quality of life and reduce avoidable crisis admissions.

We are here for you and your patients.

 

We can help you:

  • explain hospice care and palliative support to you, your patients and their families
  • guide your patients through diagnosis, treatment and care planning
  • promote wellbeing and help patients manage symptoms effectively
  • share details of other local services and referral pathways
  • maintain GSF (Gold Standards Framework) registers
  • meet QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) requirements.

Free resources and updates

Access free resources to support conversations with your patients and their loved ones. Explain palliative and end of life care, and share information within your practice, clinic or organisation.

You can also join our mailiing list to receive occasional email updates about our specialist services, new resources, referral information and ways we can support you and your patients.

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What does Katharine House Hospice do?

We're more than end of life care. We support people – and their loved ones – living with a range of incurable illnesses, including heart failure, dementia and motor neurone disease, from day one of diagnosis. Our care is free.

We recently celebrated 35 years of expert palliative care. Since 1989 we have helped almost 30,000 local people and their loved ones with specialist care at home and at our hospice.
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Whether you need to refer a patient, speak with our team or explore our services, we're here to help.
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Alison's Story

Alison shared her story because she wanted more people to understand what hospice care really is. It was "like a great big hug" to her.

Her experience highlights the difference early hospice support can make and challenges common myths.

If your practice has digital screens, you can download Alison's story further down this page to help more people discover the support available.
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Video resources

Download videos for your waiting room (or other digital screens) to help your patients and families understand how we can support them from diagnosis onwards.

Please email [email protected] if you have trouble downloading or need them in a different format.

How we can help

Helps people understand that hospice care is available from diagnosis onwards for a range of incurable illnesses.

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A variety of clips showing the range of care and support available for patients and families.

Alison’s Story (muted)

After being diagnosed with an incurable condition in 2017, Alison was lost and confused – until she discovered our hospice.