Blythe House Hospicecare Community Hub
Our multi-disciplinary team provides palliative and holistic care to local people affected by life-limiting illness, including patients, their families and carers.
Our Community Hub continues to offer services to patients and carers throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic – including telephone and online support, and COVID-secure face-to-face meetings.
We offer treatment and advice including:
- Carer and family support
- Changes to treatment plans
- Help with managing symptoms such as pain, anxiety, breathlessness or fatigue
- Isolation, confusion and loneliness
- Living with your condition
- Mental health and well-being
- Physical therapies
- Planning for end of life care
- Support after diagnosis
- Support in accessing other services
- Symptom management
- Understanding the current healthcare system
Current support during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic includes:
- Hub support groups – 1.30 to 3pm every Wednesday via Zoom – facilitated by trained and experienced nurses and support workers
- Carers support – via telephone, online or COVID-secure face-to-face meetings by appointment only
- Education sessions – via telephone, online or COVID-secure face-to-face meetings by appointment only
For more information about any of these groups or services. please call 01298 815 388. To make a referral, please complete a referral form.
Jim’s story
‘I would recommend Blythe House to anyone; if anyone gets into the state that I was in. It is certainly not a “last chance saloon” – when you think of the word hospice, you think it might not be a nice place to be, or that you haven’t got long left. That is absolutely not the case! If anything went wrong with me again, and I found myself needing advice or support, Blythe House would be my first port of call.’
Service video
Dec 2020: Louise Furmston and Lorna Barratt, two Community Hub staff members, recreate a patient’s journey into the brand new, revamped Blythe House Hospicecare Community Hub. Louise plays her role as a staff member whilst Lorna pretends to be a patient, giving you the opportunity to see COVID safety measures in place and feel safe, comfortable and supported to visit the Hub as we re-open our doors following the refurbishment.
Referrals to the Community Hub
Referrals to the Blythe House Hospicecare Community Hub are accepted from health and social care professionals, relatives, carers and friends, and patients themselves.
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