Home health care services

Many people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness prefer to spend their last days, weeks or months at home. Everyone facing life-threatening illness will need some degree of supportive care in addition to treatment for their condition. In some cases this could involve 24 hour care, which inevitably also places a huge strain on the carer, who could be a family member or friend.

For the patient and the carer, there are several support networks to provide essential practical and emotional help.

• Your own General Practitioner (GP)
• District nurse
• Macmillan nurse
• Palliative care nurse
• Social services
• Hospice