Palliative Care

Department in Depth

The Palliative Care Service in St. James’s Hospital is a medically led consultative advisory service offering a multi-disciplinary approach to all patients and families referred to the service. We provide relief from pain and other distressing symptoms and address the psychosocial and spiritual aspects to patient care. We affirm life and regard dying as a normal process.

We offer choice to patients and families with regard to place of death – home, hospice, hospital. We make use of all available community services to ensure successful discharge of patients to their homes.

We offer support to help the family cope during the patient’s illness and in their own bereavement.