UHMBT provides specialist palliative and end of life care both in hospital and in the Morecambe Bay community.

Specialist palliative care concentrates on quality of life issues for patients with advanced, progressive illnesses (both cancer and non-cancer) and provides expert guidance on care for patients, and their families.

The team has specialist skills in pain and symptom management and provides supportive care on complex social, emotional and spiritual matters at the end of life. The team also sees patients at an earlier stage where there are persistent and complex symptom control issues.

The palliative and end of life care team are a resource of support and advice to patients and carers, and complement the work of other hospital and community colleagues. This includes the support and education of staff providing palliative care.

For more information about the community palliative care team, please visit our community pages.

To contact the Trust's palliative and end of life care team, or the bereavement team please use the details in our Directory.