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There are two options for referring as a professional to St Elizabeth Hospice

Please select on the relevant option below and you will be directed to the referral form.

Professional Referral to St Elizabeth Hospice

We provide multi-disciplinary palliative care at the hospice in Ipswich, in people’s homes and in community settings, such as nursing homes.

This service works closely with professionals in other organisations to support people with their palliative care needs. Click here to refer for Ipswich, East and Mid-Suffolk.
Professional Referral to Palliative Virtual Ward

We provide specialist palliative care at home for people who are thought to be in the last six weeks of life, who wish to remain in their own home.

This service is for people who need support with personal care which is provided by a team of Community Healthcare Assistants, supported by other hospice professionals.

If personal care is not required at this time or has been sourced elsewhere, but there is a need for hospice support, please refer via our professional referral form for care in Ipswich, East and Mid-Suffolk.

Referral criteria for our specialist palliative input

Our specialist palliative care teams are available to people with life limiting illness with symptoms that cannot be resolved by generalist services.

We will support with palliative symptom and end of life care needs, which cannot be resolved by usual care providers, when someone also meets one of the following criteria:

  • Advanced and/or progressive, incurable condition.
  • General frailty and co-existing conditions which are rapidly deteriorating and reaching the end stage of their condition.
  • Assessed to be in the last weeks of life and rapid short-term care support is required to enable people to remain at home
  • Existing conditions if they are at risk of dying from a sudden acute crisis as a result of their condition
  • Life-threatening acute conditions caused by sudden catastrophic events

We aim to review all new referrals the next working day and make contact within 5 working days. If the response required is more urgent, please still refer with as much information as possible, and call our OneCall advice line on 0800 5670 111.

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