Hospice at Home

Erika LipscombeDirector of Clinical Services/Matron

What is Hospice at Home

• A team of nurses who provide specialised care for those who are at the end of life (18yrs old and upwards)

• Enable real choice for patients and families• Work in partnership with GP’s/Community

Nurses/charities• Service that is available 24/7 - 365 days year

Who is in the team

• Range of staff, trained and untrained• At any one time there is a trained and untrained

person on duty to provide care• Alongside them is a co ordinator who works to

carry out assessments and manage the day to day work – this person enables a responsive service

Who do they care for

Provide support to those people who are:-•actively dying•being discharged from hospital/hospice for end of life care•in crisis where a care package is being adjusted or set up•in care/disability homes

We prevent hospital admissions

What do they do

Work in partnership with community team•provide personal care•provide emotional support•administer medication•support a family when patient has just died•sit with patients at night

2014/15•Cost of whole service - £450K

•Total referrals 359

•121 (34%) patients from Fareham and Gosport

“They nursed my husband for almost

a week, timing visits with such care

managing his situation wonderfully

well to keep him peaceful”.

On the day mum died, the team were

with me within minutes and they told

me not to panic and helped stay calm.

They were amazing!

The nursing care was excellent but most reassuring and helpful was having mobile number to call at

night. Response to this was excellent.

With your help you enabled the four of us to take care of dad at home which was what he really

wanted.

Thank you for your input enabling the discharge

from E8. I was starting to feel that we would miss

our window of opportunity with this lady. If it wasn’t

for your team we wouldn’t have managed it so

thank you very much.

I am very impressed with the Hospice at Home Team. There has been a rapid and reliable response with good communication which has

provided invaluable support to the patient, carers and families. I am certain that we have avoided unnecessary hospital admissions by

having such a wonderful resource.

What do we need ….

Funding:-

Ultimately ………•we enable choice for people at end of life •save the NHS money by:-

– supporting care until care packages are in place– preventing unwanted hospital admissions– delivering care overnight

The Rowans HospicePurbrook Heath Road

Purbrook, WaterloovilleHampshire PO7 5RUTel: 023 9225 0001Fax: 023 9226 8567

www.rowanshospice.co.uk

Registered Charity Number: 299731

Twitter: @rowanshospice

Facebook: facebook.com/rowanshospice