Make a Referral
All referrals are now received by the Warrington Palliative Care Access Point, based at St. Rocco's Hospice.
The Warrington Palliative Care Access Point is based at St. Rocco’s Hospice. We work with local care providers, GPs, district nurses, community nurses, specialist nurses and other health and social care professionals to coordinate and provide the best possible care.
Anyone aged 18 or over who has a Warrington GP and is receiving palliative care, as well as their loved ones.
Health and social care professionals who need advice on supporting palliative patients.
Healthcare Professionals
To refer a patient, please complete our referral form and email it to cmicb-war.srhspa@nhs.net
using your NHS e-mail address. You can download the form here.
All referrals are, if appropriate, discussed at a daily MDT allocation meeting (Mon-Fri). Any urgent needs identified will be responded to within 4 hours. When completing your referral form it is important you identify the pressing needs of your patient.
All patients will be asked to consent to the sharing of their healthcare information to ensure that any advice given is appropriate.
If you have any queries regarding a referral, please contact the Palliative Hub during office hours on 0333 366 1066.
What happens next?
Referrals are discussed daily at a review meeting held at 1.30pm, Monday to Friday.
In this way referrals are dealt with promptly and patients receive the most appropriate care as it enables the best person to see the patient first, based on the needs that have been identified in the referral.
Palliative Care Access Point
Call on 03333 66 1066 or email: cmicb-war.srhspa@nhs.net
Our hours are 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday. Messages left outside these hours will be answered the next business day.
Learn more
Refer a patient
Please complete our referral form and email it to cmicb-war.srhspa@nhs.net using your NHS e-mail address
Download referral form
The patient will be contacted about who they will see or about admission.
It is important that the sharing of records is initiated by the referrer so that information can flow between the organisations and patients receive co-ordinated care.
If you have and queries regarding this process, please email cmicb-war.srhspa@nhs.net
Guidance when completing the Warrington Palliative Care Access Point Referral Form
- Complete all patient details and contact details.
- Complete diagnosis - if possible, start with most recent and work back.
- Complete the box of most relevant symptoms highlighting any change in need or deterioration.
- Past medical history is relevant but sending 45 pages of consultations detracts from the change or urgent needs you are seeking help with. Help us to identify patient’s needs.
- Gaining patient consent and opening the share on S1 is helpful to sharing information. We will always check consent with the patient when offering services.
- If you have had conversations about patients preferred place of care/death, please add this information as this will build into offering care and support relevant to each patient.
- We want to enhance the care and support of patients it is important that we build on your knowledge of the patient so anything that helps us offer individual care is a real bonus.
