Useful Information for Patients, Carers & Families

If you require any further information regarding our publications,  please telephone Sue French on 01892 820511 or email Sue.french@hospiceintheweald.org.uk Tuesday - Thursdays 9am - 5pm.

We have a wide range of booklets and leaflets that you can download from here.  Please click on the relevant link below.

A Child's Grief - When an important person in the life of a child dies, their whole world can be turned upside down.  They may feel insecure and frightened, fearing for themselves, for other people in their life and for the future in general.

Creative Therapy - Information on the various activities that are available in our Day Therapy Centre.

Physiotherapy - An outline of one of the services we provide for patients here at the Hospice.

Clostridium Difficile - What are the symptoms of C. Diff and how it is caused and prevented.

MRSA - This leaflet explains the cause of MRSA.

What to do when someone dies - This booklet has been produced to help you with useful advice and information through the first few days and weeks of bereavement.

Coping with loss - Information to help young people who are grieving the loss of someone close to them.

Support for Active Living - This group is run in seven week blocks  and covers complementary therapies, breathlessness, nutrition, applying for benefits, fatique management and accessing, emotional coping strategies as well as a question and answer session.

Counselling support - Provided by a team of staff and volunteers who are specially trained Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychologists.

Occupational Therapy - The OT service aims to maintain quality of life and support for the patient, their family and carers while adjusting to life-limiting illness and changing abilities.

Bereavement Support - This support service is available to relatives, carers and friends of those patients who have received our care. 

Day Therapy Centre - The Day Therapy Centre provides a social and creative environment in which specialist palliative care is delivered.

Symptom and Concerns Checklist -This checklist is used by clinical staff at the Hospice to perform a holistic (whole person) assessment with the patients completing the checklist

 A guide to comments and complaints- The Hospice strives to deliver the highest quality service to its patients, carers and family members and to others with whom it deals.  This leaflet explains how to make a comment or complaint about any aspect of the Hospice in the Weald's services.

Blood Transfusion - Explains why you need a blood transfusion and how to prepare for it.

Using medicines outside their licence - Important information about medicines commonly used by Hospice in the Weald.

Funeral Directors in the Hospice in the Weald area - The National Association of Funeral Directors, National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors and Dignity Funeral Services have all contributed to this booklet to provide information which may be useful to the reader.

Spinal Cord Compression - Sometimes when people have cancer it can spread to the spinal column and cause the nerves to be squeezed.  This leaflet is not intended to alarm you but to help you recognise important symptoms so that tests and treatment may be carried out as soon as possible.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - CPR is the attempt to restart the heart/or breathing after someone has collapsed.  This leaflet explains CPR in palliative care.

Exploring health websites - A guide to help you choose websites that may be helpful and supportive and gives guidance on what to avoid or look out for.

Your Grief - The death of someone important to you is an experience we all have to face some time in our lives, coming to terms with our loss can be hard.  This booklet provides advice and information on some aspects of bereavement.

Complementary therapies - Working alongside, and in addition to, medical and nursing care, therapies can promote feelings of relaxation and general well-being.

Strong painkillers and driving - Strong painkillers can affect each person in a different way.  If you are someone who drives, you may be wondering if it is safe for you to drive.  The information in this leaflet will help you to decide.