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Marie Curie

Referral criteria for Marie Curie, covering the community in the Carlisle and Eden Valley Primary Care Trust areas only:

Patients with cancer diagnosis.
Care provided by day or night or in a combination or both.
Episodes of care have to be longer than three hours duration.

Contact details

For further information contact Fiona Stobart Tel: 01228 603363

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

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