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Palliative Care

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

Further information and related information

Planning Your Care

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