Palliative Care
This area of NHSGGC’s website provides information on Palliative and End of Life Care services and resources for patients and carers living in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.
Telephone enquiries on any health issues including palliative care services should be made through your local HSCP contacts or directed to NHSGGC Support and Information Service.
Out of Hours or Urgent Health enquires should be made through your GP or call NHS 24 on 111.
Resources
For national information go to NHS Inform
Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care & Good Life Good Death Good Grief – COVID-19: hoping for the best, planning for the worst
Web pages with information for people in Scotland worried that they, or someone they care about, is at increased risk of getting seriously ill and potentially dying from COVID-19. Honest and open answers to some difficult questions.
Social Media
We have a Twitter account linking with palliative and end of life care news, resources & organisations across the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, Scotland and the UK.
View our latest Tweets and follow us at: www.twitter.com/palliativeggc
Additional Social Media on Palliative Care and Bereavement
- CHAS – Twitter Account
Children’s Hospice Association – ‘We care for children across Scotland with life-shortening conditions. Even in the pain of grief, we’re determined joy lives on’. - Good Life Good Death Good Grief – Twitter Account
‘An alliance working to make Scotland a place where there is more openness about death, dying and bereavement’.