St Luke's Hospice at Home Service provides packages of care and support for patients and families in their own homes, across Brent and Harrow.
The team consists of Health Care Assistants with experience and specific training in Palliative Care. They are supported by trained Palliative Care nurses within the Hospice.
The service can respond very quickly, offer referral, and is flexible, adapting packages of care to meet rapidly changing patient needs.
Hospice at Home helps to support the National End of Life Care Strategy by enabling patients choice to die at home, offering respite for informal carers and preventing inappropriate admission to hospital.
The main aims of the Hospice at Home provision are:
- To prevent inappropriate hospital admissions
- To facilitate rapid response care at home for patients at the end of their life who express a wish to die at home.
- To facilitate a rapid discharge from hospital/hospice for patients at the end of life
- To offer emergency respite to alleviate crisis at home
