Last Days of Life Services

Referrals may be made either by a patient or carer, or any professional directly involved in the patient’s care. Anyone making a referral must have the consent of the patient.

Fair Havens In Patient Unit provides assessment and management of physical symptoms that are proving difficult to control, such as pain, nausea, vomiting, and breathlessness. Respite care is also available for short stays enabling their carers to rest and recuperate. There are 8 beds in the unit.

Some patients may only require a stay for a few days before going home again. Some people choose to receive hospice care several times during their illness, depending on their condition and their wishes.

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The specialist Inpatient Unit (IPU) is located in the hospice building in Broomfield, Chelmsford. It provides short-term care for patients needing symptom control, respite, rehabilitation, or end of life care.

There are 10 comfortable rooms, all with Freeview TV, phones, internet access, en-suites, as well as their own private patios, overlooking our beautiful gardens. One of the rooms is specifically designed for young people and their families. 

Hospice UK can help find a hospice, provide infromation and support about end of life care and guidance to plan ahead.

Little Havens provides specialist care and support for babies, children and young people requiring specialist in-patient care for symptom management, respite and end of life care.

The Hospice at Home team offers blocks of care to people in their last few weeks of life. The blocks are usually between two and four hours and in some circumstances the blocks can run sequentially to provide a dying person with almost 24 hour care. The Hospice at Home team offers care for 7 days a week. 

For patients requiring specialist in-patient care for symptom management and end of life care.

The team are clinical specialists that are experts in pain and symptom control.

Urgent advice ia available 24 hours, 365 days a year.

St Luke's Hospice community service provides assessment, support advice and care for people wishing to be cared  and supported in their locality community setting. The team also provide support in care homes, the hospice's rapid access service and there is the provision of clinical nurse specialists.

St Luke's Hospice provide specialist in-patient care for symptom management and end of life care.        

There are a total of 7 beds and 1 emergency bed in Basildon.

Hospice Rapid Access Service (HRAS) with 6 Beds in Thurrock.

The Dove Community Counselling Service team at St Luke's Hospice offer bereavement support to adults living with a life limiting illness, from diagnosis through to end of life or into survivorship. 

Bereavement support is also available to those who may have experienced a bereavement from suicide, sudden, traumatic or accidental deaths, or within the last 5 years due to a life limiting illness.