Palliative care
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care aims to achieve the best quality of life for patients and their carers throughout the course of their illness. Control of pain and other symptoms is of great importance, as is providing emotional and practical support.
As a team we can provide:
- Advice on symptom control including pain, breathlessness, sickness and constipation
- Emotional and practical support for patients and their carers
- Support and advice to other health professionals
- Referral to other team members for possible financial entitlements
- Helping with preparing to return home
- Outpatient follow up if necessary
- Telephone advice
- Referral to bereavement services if appropriate.
Our team includes both medical and nursing staff.
Palliative Medicine Consultants
- Dr Jane Edgecombe
- Dr Eilidh Burns
- Dr Lucy Hetherington
There is also a Specialist Registrar in Palliative Medicine based in the department.
Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Karen MacKay
- Lisa Mohapatra
- Liz Little
- Rachael English
Specialist Palliative Care Pharmacist
- Paul Gallagher.
Referral to the Specialist Palliative Care Team can be made by your doctor or nurse with the approval of your oncology consultant. We work closely with the oncology team who are looking after you at the Beatson.
When you are referred to the Specialist Palliative Care Team, a team member will come and assess you on the ward. You may need one visit, several visits or ongoing visits from the team. Everyone is different and we assess each person individually. We work as a team, so you may meet more than one member of the team.
Contact telephone numbers
The Palliative care secretaries can be contacted on 0141 301 7041
Further information
For more information on palliative care go to www.nhsggc.org.uk