St Catherine’s Hospice has a team of Specialist Community Nurses who visit people in their homes. 

A hospice community nurse is a patient’s primary contact with the hospice.  They provide the link between the patient and the rest of the hospice team to ensure the most appropriate support and care.

St Catherine’s community nurses are highly experienced senior nurses specialising in palliative care.  They visit people in their own homes and work alongside GPs, District Nurses and other healthcare professionals who are already involved.  Their role is to provide the specialist palliative care input needed.  

The community nurses are based at the main hospice building but spend most of their time visiting patients in their homes and meeting other healthcare professionals to ensure the best possible service.

Our community care service will be going through some major changes between July 2008 and January 2009 with the aim of enhancing patient choice by providing 7-day palliative care service supporting our local community.

In the interim period the service you get from us may be different from that you received in the past.   Our community team may be sharing responsibility for patients, rather than each patient talking to and seeing the same community nurse all the time.