Working hours
The Hospital Adult Specialist Palliative Care Team office hours are Monday to Friday 8 am to 5 pm. After 5 pm, ward teams can seek advice from the On Call Palliative Care Consultant for advice via switchboard following a senior medical review.
Weekend cover
Clinical Nurse Specialist cover is available on weekends and bank holidays (except Christmas Day) from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm. They can provide advice or face to face assessments for those patients who:
- Are known to our service and require complex medication changes
- Have uncontrolled symptoms at the end of life
- Are starting or maintaining complex medications that require review
- Require urgent assessment of physical symptoms and direction or place of care
- Require support where there are extraordinary levels of distress for the patient or family for which it would be inappropriate to wait until the weekday service
- Patients who are known to our service, where there is concern that they may not survive a planned transfer