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A palliative nurse for a year, part of a new team born in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, who will: - Put care in place to receive patients out of hospital to die at home with loved ones close - Prevent emergency admissions to our NHS - Give physical and emotional support to carers and patients.
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Situation
People at the end of life are dying in unplanned and unfamiliar surroundings without support at home or on the way to hospital. When someone's dying wish is to be at home with loved ones, a hospital bed is not often the best place for them, especially when much palliative care can be administered at home. These NHS beds can transferred to recovering patients. We can act to end this injustice, help people have better supported and planned deaths, care of their choosing and protect our NHS.
Solution
By adding a registered nurse to our Hospice Discharge and Support Team. They will reduce admissions to, and facilitate discharge from hospital. Patients will be in the last weeks or days of life. Traditional care packages take unavailable time to put in place. Our nurse will put care in place to control pain and cascade specialist skills to our palliative team. Our nurse will help achieve "good deaths" and will help combat 83% who fear dying in pain, 59% in hospital and 67% alone. (Age UK)
