The service is provided for patients living within the Wigan borough who are suffering from a life-limiting illness and have intractable and/or complex palliative care problems, whose needs cannot be met by Hospital or Primary Care services or disease-specific Specialist Nurses.
Patients can be referred to the Hospice by one of the following :
The patient’s General Practitioner
Hospital Consultant or Specialist Registrar
Community or hospital-based Macmillan nurses
Other specialist nurses
District Nursing Team Leaders (with the agreement of the patient’s GP)
