What is Palliative Care?

Palliative care is specialised support for people living with serious illness, focused on improving quality of life for both patients and their families. It looks after the whole person, easing pain and other difficult symptoms while also attending to emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing.

Palliative care works alongside other medical treatment, from the time of diagnosis and through every stage of the illness journey, helping people live as fully and comfortably as possible.

It is provided by a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, social workers and other caring professionals working together, and can be accessed in hospitals, clinics, hospices or at home.

The goal is to improve the quality of life for both the patient and the family.