Specialist services | Palliative care
Palliative care
The palliative care service supports the management and care of patients with a cancer.
The multi-professional team provides specialist advice about symptom control as well as psychological and social support to patients, families, carers and staff.
Services available:
- Advice on the management of physical and psychological symptoms.
- Support to the patients, families and carers during the illness.
- Assessment of the bereavement process and advice on other available agencies.
- Educational resource, formally and informally for all levels of staff.
- Provision of a contact point for liaison with outside palliative care agencies e.g. hospices and community palliative care teams.
- Provision of support for staff caring for patients with cancer.
- Multi-professional team, consisting of doctors, nurses, secretaries, social work support and Psychologists. The team is closely integrated with all other services at Barts and The London and other local acute hospitals to provide comprehensive care.
Contact us
Macmillan palliative care team - tel 020 346 55600
