BCHC staff treating an adult patient

Services

Inpatient Services

Willow House Palliative Care

We provide inpatient palliative care for people in the final stages of an illness.

About our service

Palliative care aims to give patients choice, privacy, dignity and autonomy. When death is inevitable, the focus of care is to enable patients to die in comfort in an environment that is supportive to the patient and their carers.

 

The service aims to provide such care in the most appropriate setting for each individual eg. patient’s home, residential or nursing home, hospice or health centre.

 

We provide inpatient palliative care for people in the final stages of an illness including weekly consultant reviews at the Sheldon Unit.

 

District nursing services across the city provide support to patients in their own home in partnership with local hospices , intermediate care and private/third sector hospice at home providers.

 

 

Who is it for?

The service is for patients who meet the continuing care criteria for palliative care and who have highly complex needs, requiring skilled healthcare interventions on a 24-hour basis.

 

 

Laundry

We are not able to wash personal items of clothing.  There are washing baskets or lockers in the patient’s room or bed area and it is important that relatives/friends check this regularly for dirty washing as this will have to be taken to be washed.  The dirty washing will be placed in red (Alginate) bags that can be placed straight into a washing machine and will dissolve during the washing cycle.

 

If there is a problem with washing personal items please speak to the Nurse in Charge.

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