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Palliative care service at NNUH expands
An expansion of the palliative care service at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) has increased the number of patients who can be referred to the team and ensures that the highest standards of end of life care are achieved daily.
The trust has recruited additional specialist nurses and consultant to deliver a seven-day service, as well as end of life educator post. The roles will enhance end of life care for patients and ensure individualised care is always provided.
The service also offers rapid response palliative care assessment to patients in the A&E department and acute oncology services to ensure a patient’s symptoms are controlled as soon as they come to hospital, and so patients are facilitated to go home if they wish.
The palliative care service can now also offer daily Symptom Management and Supportive Care Clinics to ensure that patients can be seen much earlier in for their disease, for assessment and support.
Dr Nicola Haltom, palliative medicine consultant, said: “We are very pleased to offer this seven-day service to our patients and are now able to see most patients within 24 hours of referral.”
Dr Frankie Swords, chief of division for medicine at NNUH, said: “The NNUH palliative care team already provides a great deal of support to our patients, but this expansion will enable us to deliver the highest standard of supportive care much earlier to the patients who really need it, seven days a week. This is great news for our patients.”
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