Community Outreach Support

Many people who are seriously ill and nearing the end of their lives prefer to be cared for at home surrounded by their family and friends. Our Outreach team help make this possible.

The Outreach Team

The Outreach Team supports patients and families in their own homes through the provision of education, personal, practical and emotional support for short periods of time.

Our Outreach team work collaboratively with health and social care professionals, to ensure that those patients who wish to be cared for at home, surrounded by their family and friends, are able to do so.

The team consists of a Nurse Team Coordinator and four Outreach Support Workers who are highly skilled, motivated and committed in delivering all aspects of specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people whose preferred place of care is in their home. The team have extensive knowledge and skills in palliative care.

The team provides care Monday to Friday between 9 am and 5 pm (excluding Bank Holidays).

Referrals

Patients with any life-limiting illness who are over 18-years-old and registered with a GP in Bury
Patients for whom the current support from other services no longer meet their needs
Where appropriate, patients waiting to be admitted into the Hospice, or wishing to go home from the Hospice or hospital and are awaiting input from another care provider.

Referral Form

What do we do?

Point of contact for patients, families and carers.
Holistic assessment needs.
Personal, practical and emotional support
Short situational respite in the patient’s own home to enable carers to take a break
Signpost to other services where appropriate
Advance Care Planning