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Complementary Therapy Treatments can help relieve stress and make people feel more relaxed. Qualified nurse practitioners and trained volunteers give treatments wherever we run support groups, and in patients' own homes. They are available to patients, carers, and to bereaved people. 
Hospice at Home West Cumbria runs a service to treat Lymphoedema, the limb swelling that can be a side effect of many cancers, or of cancer treatments. Clinics are held at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven and at the Workington Community Hospital. Home visits can be arranged if appropriate. 
Specialist medical information and advice is available from the hospice medical team. Advice is given, when requested, to the patient’s GP, Hospital Consultant or other palliative care professional. 
‘Living for Today’ is a programme delivered over six weeks designed to help patients and their carers cope after receiving a diagnosis of a non-curable, life limiting illness. It aims to facilitate people’s wellbeing, and to help them to get the most out of life. The programme provides information and support in small groups of no more than 8 people, in an informal and friendly setting. 
Carol Green is Hospice at Home West Cumbria's Family and Breavement Support Worker. Carol sees people on a one-to-one basis in a variety of locations, and works closely with a team of family and bereavement support volunteers to enhance the service.
Nursing care and support is offered to adults with cancer or other advanced illness following an assessment, which is normally undertaken by a Macmillan Nurse or the Hospice Nurse Team Leader. Care is given to patients in their own homes, which can include Residential Care Homes, Nursing Homes and Community Hospitals. 
Hospice at Home West Cumbria and exists to ensure that the people of West Cumbria receive the best possible palliative and end of life care. It aims to be a ‘hospice without walls’ providing all the services found in a traditional hospice building but delivering those services in people’s homes and in community locations. Services comprise home nursing, lymphoedema treatment and hospice support.
The home nursing service is the heart of the hospice's work, giving skilled nursing care on a one-to-one basis to any adult with an advanced illness in their own home. This provides respite care for patients and their families; it enables patients to remain at home and or to return home from hospital if that is where they want to be.
The lymphoedema service treats the limb swelling that many cancer patients suffer from.
Hospice support is a range of specialised services to help people who are dealing with a serious illness, who have caring responsibilities for a very ill person, or who have been bereaved. It includes complementary therapy treatments, a special programme called ’Living for Today’ that is there to help patients and their carers deal with a serious illness and get the most out of life, support groups, and a family and bereavement support service.
All services are provided free. The NHS provides sufficient funding to cover about 1/3 of our costs and the rest, £500,000 a year, has to be raised locally through voluntary donations, fundraising and legacies.
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Contact Us
For Hospice Services
01900 705200
Workington Community
Hospital,
Park Lane,
Workington
Cumbria CA14 2RW
For Fundraising, Finance
and Volunteering
01900 873173
1st Floor, Cumbria House,
New Oxford Street,
Workington,
Cumbria CA14 2NA
Forthcoming Events
- Open Garden Event - 20/05/2012, Great Broughton Church, Creat Broughton
- Voulnteer Craft and Crack - 28/05/2012, Cockermouth Fire Station, Cockermouth
- Midnight Walk - 29/06/2012, Workington, Workington