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Palliative Care
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde has 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs) within its area. You can find local contacts on their websites. Your HSCP
The ward team will discuss with you and your family to assess what services you need and the ward will organise these before you go home. These services can still be arranged when you are at home if required.
NHSGGC Planning Your Care
Other Resources
Palliative and End of Life Care services and resources for patients and carers living in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area can be accessed through NHS Inform.
NHS Inform – Scotland’s Service Directory – Palliative Care in NHSGGC area
NHS Inform – Palliative Care – General Information
Telephone enquiries on community services including Palliative Care 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.
Leaving Hospital
Community Services following discharge from hospital for patients with life limiting conditions, their families and carers.
Hospices
Hospices in NHSGGC and surrounding area
Social Media
We have an X/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’.
Further information and related information
Macmillan Information And NHS Bereavement Centre
Adult Disability Payment
Adult Disability Payment, which replaces Personal Independence Payment (PIP), is launching nationally across Scotland on 29 August 2022.
This means Scotland’s new terminal illness definition, based on clinical judgement, will apply to adults (aged 16 to state pension age) who become terminally ill. This moves away from the current DWP time limited ‘6 month’ definition.
From 29 August 2022, BASRiS forms instead of DS1500 forms should be completed to support applications for disability assistance for the following groups:
- Children: for all children living in Scotland age 0 to 16 years: complete a BASRiS form and return it to Social Security Scotland
- Adults: age 16 to state pension age: complete a BASRiS form and return it to Social Security Scotland
- Adults over state pension age: please continue to use a DS1500 and return to DWP. The date for when you will be able to use a BASRiS form for adults over state pension age is still to be announced.
Your Health Care Professional should be able to access the relevant resources to support applications.
More information for the public is available at Social Security Scotland