Our hospice is led by a consultant in palliative medicine and provides specialist, complex palliative care.
We accept referrals for inpatient admissions and offer a short- term place of care to meet these needs, ranging on average from 7-10 days.
These referrals must be made by the treating clinician and cannot be made by an individual or family member.
Your treating clinician has access to our full referral criteria, but in brief, you will need to:
· Be over the age of 18 years old
· Have a diagnosed terminal health condition
· Have complex and specialist palliative symptoms or be in the very last days of life where your preferred place of death is the hospice
· Be registered with a GP practice in our area*
*We can, by exception, accept out-of-area patients where there is a specific reason; your treating clinician should contact the hospice in advance of a referral to see whether the reason would meet our policy criterion.
Once a referral comes to our medical team, we assess and prioritise our admissions based on clinical need for access to our services. When you are assessed as a clinical priority and we have a bed available, your treating clinician will be informed to arrange admission if they still consider this to be appropriate.
After your admission, we will start appropriate conversations with you about discharge to ensure that we have a plan in place to support you beyond our walls.
Our Crimple House site has capacity for 10 inpatient beds. At present, up to six beds are available while the site undergoes a much needed refurbishment, its first major facelift since 2005.
Once the refurbishment is complete, we plan to return to operating all 10 beds. Crimple House currently receives some NHS funding for specialist and complex palliative care, which supports the equivalent of two beds. We would welcome additional sustainable NHS funding to support the full operation of our 10-bed service.
Kindly provided by Verity Frearson Estate Agents
Saint Michael’s inpatient unit part 1
Inpatient unit entrance, bedrooms, bathroom.
Saint Michael’s inpatient unit part 2
Visitor kitchen and lounges.
Saint Michael’s reception and outpatient rooms virtual tour
Entrance, Breathing Space, wellbeing, lymphoedema and therapy rooms.
Thanks to Sovereign Health Care’s Community Programme for funding £2,600 of medical equipment for our Inpatient Unit this year.
