Grove House Services and Developments

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• Grove House Services and Developments
• Sue Varvel Director of Patients Services
• Fran Deane Deputy Director of Patient Services

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Overview of Patient Services

• Day Hospice
• Outpatient Clinics
• Cancer the Next Step
• Therapies
• Family Support
• Spiritual Care
• Grove House _at_ Home
• CANCER-i

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Day Hospice

• Nurse led service
• Operates 4 days a week
• Patients receive ongoing individual assessment
  and monitoring around their physical emotional
  and spiritual needs
• Aims to assist patients in maintaining
  independence, managing symptoms and developing
  coping strategies

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Outpatient Clinics

• Nurse Clinic and Medical Clinic
• Offers
• Clinical advice
• Symptom monitoring and management
• Ongoing support and support
• Signposting to other appropriate services

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Cancer the Next Step

• 8 week programme, 3 times per year
• Aim to enable patients to
• Cope with diagnosis
• Resume as nearly as possible a normal lifestyle
• For patients
• Aged 18-60
• Recently diagnosed
• No secondary disease

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Therapies

• Specialist Physiotherapist
• Mobility or functional problems
• Pain, weakness, swelling or soft tissue injury
• Fatigue / tiredness
• Breathing problems
• Occupational Therapy
• Assessment for equipment provision and
  adaptations
• Advice/support promoting independence in daily
  living
• Moving and handling
• Lymphoedema Service
• Complementary Therapy
• Reflexology, Massage, Aromatherapy, Reiki, Indian
  Head Massage
• 6 sessions for patients, 4 sessions for carers
• Acupuncture
• Yoga

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Family Support Service

• Counselling
• Play Therapy
• Bereavement Support
• Benefits Advice
• For patients, carers and bereaved

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Spiritual Care

• Provides support whether or not someone has a
  religious background
• Struggling with unsettling questions
• Searching for meaning and hope
• Looking for inner peace and sense of well-being
• Re-examining their beliefs in light of their
  diagnosis
• Putting their affairs in order

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Grove House _at_ Home

• Team of 40 volunteers
• Offers
• Befriending
• Home Sitting
• Complementary Therapy
• Visits may be weekly, fortnightly, ad hoc basis
• Managed and co-ordinated by the Occupational
  Therapists

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CANCER-i

• Service in Grove House
• drop-in, telephone helpline and email
• open 10am 4pm, Monday Friday
• Offers
• Friendly environment, space and time
• Disease-related and support information
• Access to other GH services
• Volunteers in Hospital Clinics
• SACH Breast and Urology Clinics
• HHGH Oncology Clinic

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Service Developments

• Hospice at Home Nursing service based on the
  Iain Rennie Hospice at Home Model
• Phased introduction of the Service over the next
  12 months
• Team of 7 senior support / support nurses
  (recruitment July08, April09, June09)
• Macmillan Nurses will provide the Clinical Nurse
  Specialist (CNS) support