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Services St. Luke's Hospice provides specialist palliative care for people living in the Basildon and Thurrock districts with any life threatening, life limiting diseases. This often means cancer but also includes other illnesses that are no longer curative, such as heart failure, multiple sclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or motor neurone disease for example. Care and support is offered through a wide range of services that are tailor made to meet the needs of individuals. This care is extended to carers, families and friends. Services are for adults from 18 years upwards except where stated otherwise. In Patient Care Care is provided in 8 individual rooms within a purpose built unit. Patients are fully involved in decisions about their treatment and care enabling them to retain dignity and control. This care extends to families and friends. All specialist medical nursing and support staff aim to foster a friendly homely environment where there is a balance between specialist clinical expertise and comfort, allowing individual choice in partnership with the multi-professional team.  Day Hospice Our Day Hospice provides the opportunity for patients to spend a day with us in a relaxed and caring atmosphere in our purpose built and recently refurbished Day Hospice Unit. Specialist professional support and advice is readily available from a range of health and social care disciplines and there is plenty of social contact and peer support which also extends to carers, families and friends. Out-Patients Clinic This is available once a week in our Day Hospice. It allows people to have an individual appointment for a specific intervention staffed by a multi-professional team. Services offered include blood transfusions, physiotherapy sessions, appointment with the occupational therapist, social worker or a counsellor, complementary therapies and other specific appointments. People do not have to access other hospice services in order to attend the Out-Patients Clinic. Making Sense Creative Work Group "Making Sense" is a programme of creative and therapeutic group work, using a series of creative activities which include the use of our different senses. Creative work is an integral part of the care services offered to our service users who because of illness may be lacking in self confidence, self esteem and need positive outlook reinforcement. Sessions may include a variety of activities from poetry writing and short stories to visual art, music or making a video. The aim of this programme is to enable participants to draw on their life's experiences and enjoy the opportunity of having a go in a supportive atmosphere of fun, with others, exploring the special and unique person we each are. Each programme consists of 6 weekly 90 minute sessions in closed groups of between 3 to 8 participants. Downloadable leaflets Making Sense Hospice at Home (H@H) H@H provides a range of nursing interventions to enable patients to remain at home or return home if that is their wish. This support is also extended to carers and families and friends. H@A works closely with the multi-professional team to avoid unnecessary and unwanted admission to hospital or hospice, particularly during the last few days of life. Interventions can be tailor made to suit the needs of patients and families and include weekly phone calls to keep in touch with clients and review care, weekly support visits, extra visits for intensive support during a crisis or at the end of life, night care or a planned visit to cover a special event. H@H Volunteer Service This service is provided for patients and families in their own home, usually for a few hours at a time once or twice a week, to enable carers and relatives to take a break, go shopping or take some time out to relax. The trained volunteers are managed by our Hospice at Home Team. Community Information and Support Service St. Luke's Community Services are provided across four services which allows support to be tailored for specific individual and family needs at any time throughout the illness and through bereavement support after death.
Social Work Service This service offers emotional, social, practical financial advice support and assessment for patients, their families and carers. This service provides support for any person associated with any hospice service and will also act as an expert resource for health and social care professionals externally, taking on a small percentage of community work from other specialist palliative care providers. Lukes Counselling Service for Children and Young People Lukes Counselling Service for Children and Young People offers support and help for children and their families when someone is seriously ill or has died. Carers Support St. Luke's Hospice recognises the particular strain and often varied support needs of family or friends who are caring for someone with a life threatening life limiting illness at home. Carers can be anyone who is living with the responsibility of caring in this way. Support Groups As well as our patients, St. Luke's offers comprehensive support for carers, families and friends through various service groups, one-to-one interventions and Counselling, which provides a supporting framework of information, guidance and help. Complementary Therapy This service is staffed by several therapists offering massage, aromatherapy, reflexology and Indian head massage to patients, carers, relatives and staff. The service is managed by our Complementary Therapy Nurse Co-ordinator. In addition to this service members of our nursing teams are either qualified as therapists or have obtained competency in this area and can delivery therapies day and night to in-patients. A limited service is offered to the community and hospital therefore external referrals are accepted for this service. Statistics show that 1 in 3 people will develop cancer and that approximately 30% of those diagnosed will use complementary therapies alongside their conventional treatment. |
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