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What is Palliative Care?
Palliative Care is the care of patients who have advanced illness, and their families. The Beaumont Hospital Palliative Care Service provides specialist medical, nursing and social work care. Our aim is to ensure that as far as possible the quality of life is maintained throughout the illness and that any concerns are addressed and if possible alleviated.
Our Team
The palliative care service is made up of a palliative medical consultant, a palliative medicine registrar, 3 clinical nurse specialists and senior social worker and a secretary.
Following a referral from your consultant, a member of the palliative care team will meet with you, review your medical condition, any symptoms you may have, how you are coping and deal with questions and concerns.
The senior social worker attached to the palliative care team is available to meet with the patient to provide emotional support and counselling to the patient and their family, should it be required. The social worker is available to meet with families who are concerned about how to talk to their children about the impact of illness on either the patient or the family, and can advise and assist families for whom this is a dilemma.
The palliative care team will work with you and your main medical team and nursing staff. The palliative care team does not "take over" your care.
We will also help you and your team plan your care after discharge from hospital, either to your own home or transfer to another hospital, nursing home, or hospice.
Contact
The Palliative Care department can be contacted at 8093339. For other contacts please see below
Useful links
All Ireland Institute for Hospice and Palliative Care
All Ireland Institute for Hospice & Palliative Care
Pharmacological Management of Cancer Pain in Adults
The Pharmacological Management of Cancer Pain in Adults
Management of Constipation in Adult Patients Receiving Palliative Care
Management of Constipation in Adult Patients receiving Palliative Care
Annual Palliative Care Multidisciplinary Study Day
The Beaumont Hospital Annual Palliative Care Multidisciplinary Study Day takes place in Beaumont Hospital in September each year. Please see links below to the presentations for the 2019 Study Day
Ethics for Patients and Families
Dr Regina McQuillan, Consultant in Palliative Care, Beaumont Hospital
Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Palliative Care
Dr Lucy Quilter, Registrar in Palliative Care. Beaumont Hospital
Dr. Aoibheann Conneely, Research Fellow Academic Dept of Palliative Medicine, Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Services, Dublin & Special Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University College Dublin
The Role of the Community Palliative Care Team
Zara Fay. Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, St Francis Hospice Dublin
The Role of the Emergency Ambulance Service for Palliative Care Patients
Joe Mooney, Advanced Paramedic National Ambulance service
Person-centered perspectives on communication
Sorcha O’Keeffe (MSW) BSS., PhD.
De-prescribing in Palliative Care
Joanna Carroll, Senior Pharmacist