Macmillan Supporting Carers
Macmillan Supporting Carers
Rotherham NHS Community Health Services – Rotherham Hospice at Home Service, Rotherham Hospice, Broom Road, Broom, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 2SW
Contact: Louise Evans, Service Manager
Tel: 01709 308923
Fax: 01709 371702
Email: louise.evans@rotherhampct.nhs.uk
The Macmillan supporting carers scheme is part of the Hospice at Home Service and provides palliative care and support to patients, carers and their families living in the Rotherham community. Macmillan in partnership with Rotherham NHS community health service have employed six additional generic support workers to help support people further at home throughout their disease trajectory from diagnosis to end of life care and beyond bereavement. Based at the hospice the service is part of specialist palliative care provision with a trained nurse manager and staff nurse to co-ordinate, assess and offer advice in close liaison with the key worker/district nurse. Referrals are received via telephone/fax/written format Monday-Friday 9am-5pm (excluding bank holidays). Additionally, Macmillan as part of the ongoing development for Hospice at Home/Specialist Palliative Care have recently funded a full time occupational therapist and physiotherapist to increase capacity out in the community and extend the skills of the Macmillan generic support workers. The recent successful development application and addition to the team of a Macmillan equalities link worker is aimed at improving equality and diversity to BME, learning disability and mental health groups with palliative and end of life care needs. The three main projected outcomes are: reduce avoidable admissions, provide equal access to specialist palliative care and support, promote and achieve preferred priorities for care initiative.
Catchment area: Rotherham community.
How referrals are made: Referrals are accepted from district nurse, GP, community matrons, specialist palliative care team (acute and primary care), specialist nurses, fast response team either by telephone/fax/written format
Service available: 24 hours service day and night – clinical support staff.
Day: trained nurse 9am-5pm (excluding bank holiday).
Night: trained nurse seven days a week 10pm-7am.
Office hours: 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday (excluding bank holidays).
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