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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, which comprises a Consultant in Palliative Care and a Hospice Doctor. Advice is given, when requested, to the patient’s GP, Hospital Consultant or other palliative care professional. 
Hospice Day Care exists to enable patients to have a professionally supported day out in a warm friendly environment with the opportunity to meet other people, giving both the patient and their family time for themselves. The Centres are run by a qualified Day Care Leader, assisted by an experienced palliative care nurse. The Hospice doctor will attend the sessions from time to time. 
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
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ospice at Home West Cumbria was established in 1987. It exists to provide the best possible palliative care to terminally ill patients, to give help and support to their carers/loved ones, and to make its services available to everybody in West Cumbria who needs them.
The heart of our operation is our home nursing service, giving skilled nursing support on a one-to-one basis to any adult with a terminal illness in their own home. This provides respite care for patients and their families; it enables terminally ill patients to remain at home and dying patients to be discharged from hospital to their own homes. We are one of the very few providers of home nursing for the terminally ill, and were one of the two hospices that pioneered this service in 1987.
Additionally we provide Hospice Support in three community locations, Hospice Day Care in two places, a Lymphoedema Service, and a Bereavement Support Service. Patients can get Complementary Therapy treatment at the Hospice Support sessions and at hospice Day Care or in their own homes. All services are provided free.The NHS provides sufficient funding to cover about 1/3 of our costs. The rest, £7,500 a week, has to be raised locally through voluntary donations, fundraising and legacies.
The heart of our operation is our home nursing service, giving skilled nursing support on a one-to-one basis to any adult with a terminal illness in their own home. This provides respite care for patients and their families; it enables terminally ill patients to remain at home and dying patients to be discharged from hospital to their own homes. We are one of the very few providers of home nursing for the terminally ill, and were one of the two hospices that pioneered this service in 1987.
Additionally we provide Hospice Support in three community locations, Hospice Day Care in two places, a Lymphoedema Service, and a Bereavement Support Service. Patients can get Complementary Therapy treatment at the Hospice Support sessions and at hospice Day Care or in their own homes. All services are provided free.The NHS provides sufficient funding to cover about 1/3 of our costs. The rest, £7,500 a week, has to be raised locally through voluntary donations, fundraising and legacies.
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