Palliative care

Useful links

• C
  • Carer medication diary
  • Consent form for patient or carer administration of subcutaneous medication
• F
  • Fast track discharge flowchart
• G
  • Guide to patient or carer administration of subcutaneous medication
  • Guidelines for use of Clonazepam for pain control in Palliative Care patients
• O
  • Opioid dose conversion chart, syringe driver doses, rescue/prn doses and opioid patches
  • Opioid substitution treatment pathway
  • Options for symptom management in last days if there is no syringe driver or manpower to give injectable drugs
• P
  • Palliative care drugs in community pharmacy
  • Palliative care formulary
  • Protocol for patient or carer administration of subcutaneous medication
• R
  • Rapid Deteriorating Patient Discharge Checklist
  • Referral and discharge guidelines
  • Referral form for Specialist Palliative Care Services
• S
  • Steroid summary prescribing tips
  • Symptom control guidelines
  • Symptom control in the last days of life
  • Symptom management in Palliative Care (Yorkshire and Humber)
• U
  • Unlicensed medicines

Contact numbers for York and Scarborough Palliative Care Teams

7 day service between 8am-4pm

• York Hospital Palliative Care Team - 01904 725835
• York Community Palliative Care Team - 01904 777770
• St Leonards Hospice, York - 01904 708553
• Scarborough Hospital Palliative Care Team - 01723 342446
• Scarborough Community Palliative Care Team - 01723 351421
• St Catherine’s Hospice, Scarborough - 01723 351421

Out of hours

• York St Leonards Hospice - 01904 708553
• Scarborough Pallcall St Catherine’s Hospice - 01723 354506