Palliative care is the active, holistic care of people with advanced, progressive illness. The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best quality of life for patients and their families.
Palliative care is based on a number of principles, and aims to:
- provide relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
- integrate the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care
- offer a support system to help patients to live as actively as possible until death and to help the family to cope during the patient’s illness and in their own bereavement
- be applied early in the course of an illness in conjunction with other treatments
Hospices provide palliative care for patients with life-threatening illnesses, along with help and advice for carers. Care can also be provided in the community, through day services. Most people receiving hospice services have cancer, but care is also provided for people with HIV-related illness and some advanced, degenerative, neurological disorders such as motor neurone disease.
Some private nursing and rest homes also specialise in the care of the terminally ill. Support is provided for carers before and after the death of a patient. Macmillan Nurses work at the Hospices and can be contacted there.
The main hospices in Bradford are listed below. Admission is arranged through your doctor or hospital consultant and they should be able to advise you of these and any others in your area, and the how to apply to them.
Bradford Cancer Support Unit
Daisy Bank
109 Duckworth Lane
Bradford BD9 6RN
Tel: 01274 776688
Bradford Cancer Support Unit
Bradford Hospice at Home Team
Marie Curie Hospice
Maudsley Street
Bradford
BD3 9LE
Tel: 01274 323575/8
Manorlands
Sue Ryder Care Hospice
Hebden Road
Oxenhope
Keighley BD22 9HJ
Tel: 01535 642308
Fax: 01535 642902
Manor Land Hospice
Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford
Maudsley Street
Leeds Road
Bradford BD3 9LE
Tel: 01274 337000
Fax: 01274 337094
Marie Curie Hospice – Bradford
