Hospice care isn’t only about managing pain and symptoms on a hospice ward. It is often about the things that make life better for the person and their family outside of the hospice’s building.

Dawn is a Senior Staff Nurse for the specialist Hospice at Home service, delivering all aspects of specialist palliative and end of life care to people whose preferred place of care is their home.

“Caring for people at the end of their life is a privilege. As a Hospice at Home nurse, I’m there to provide specialist care, comfort, and support — not just for the person who is dying, but for their family too. It’s about helping people live well until the very end, in the place they feel most at peace.”

The Hospice at Home team work collaboratively with District Nurses, GPs and Macmillan Nurses, to ensure that those patients who wish to be cared for at home, surrounded by their family and friends, are able to do so. It is a seven day a week service currently operating between the hours of 08:30am and 4:30pm.