End of Life and Palliative Care Services & Lymphoedema Service - North Yorkshire

End of Life and Palliative Care Services - Inpatient Care The service will provide a ten bedded inpatient unit for terminal care, symptom control, assessment and crisis care for individuals who have a progressive terminal condition with specialist palliative care needs. End of Life and Palliative Care Services - Community The service will deliver a community-based palliative and end of life care services for individuals aged 18 and over requiring domiciliary end of life care, complex symptom management and assessment of their changing condition and/or disease progression. The service will provide an End-of-Life Care Co-ordination Service that will work collaboratively across primary, community, secondary care and third sectors to facilitate choice in respect to preferred priorities for care and death. Volunteers Visitor Service The service will support carers of people living with a terminal illness through a team of trained volunteers who will undertake regular home visits to individuals with end-of-life care needs. The service will provide practical, emotional and social support for carers to reduce feelings of isolation and anxiety. Lymphoedema Service The service will provide a community lymphoedema service which supports the specialist management of individuals living with lymphoedema, lipoedema and chronic oedema aged 18 and above. The service will be delivered in line with British Lymphology Society guidelines.