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Welcome

Welcome to the North Cumbria Palliative Care, an online palliative care educational and information resource for primary care teams, developed by palliative care health professionals in North Cumbria, UK.

North Cumbria Palliative Care provides excellent up to date information on key clinical topics in palliative care, details of local and national educational events and full listings of all North Cumbria palliative care services.

The site aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of health professionals caring for palliative care patients.

Members of the Public

This site is designed for health professionals. If you are a member of the public and have questions about palliative care in North Cumbria, your general practitioner should be able to help - you can search for a local GP on the NHS uk website.

If you want to explore options for care for yourself or for someone else in Cumbria you can visit:
www.cumbriaconversationsforlife.nhs.uk

If you want to explore a wider ranging dialogue about life, change, loss, living and dying you can visit:
www.wellbeingindying.org.uk

Other links for patients, families or carers

1. Marie Curie: Patient, carers and family website

2. Caresearch (Australian)

3. Canadian Virtual Hospice

Updated October 2010

Important News

Important Changes in Cumbria Palliative Care Prescribing Practice

Cumbria is changing practice, from 1st April 2011.

The Area Prescribing Committee has recommended the following changes:

  • All strong opioids are to be prescribed by brand name
  • "Just in Case" prescribing is to be encouraged and promoted
  • Morphine is to replace diamorphine as the subcutaneous injectable strong opioid of choice for palliative care patients in Cumbria

21/03/2011

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North Cumbria Pallative Care website

The award winning North Cumbria Palliative Care website continues to receive around 30,000 page views a year. This is 82 page views every single day of the year, 2,500 hits every month, without any publicity or advertising program.

1/3/2011

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