Hospice Services
Wigan and Leigh Hospice provides palliative and end of life care to people living in their own homes, in various care settings and on our inpatient unit. In the year 2023 we cared for over 1,200 patients and supported those people closest to our patients.
What We Do
We deliver end of life and palliative care. Palliative care means treating the ‘whole needs’ of an individual including their physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs.
Our care extends to patients with any life-limiting illness including - but not limited to - cancer, respiratory conditions and neurological conditions.
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Our Hospice Services
Wigan & Leigh Hospice provides specialist palliative and end of life care to over 1,400 local people every year. We’re a registered charity, funded mainly through the donations and support of local people.
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Community Hospice Nurse Specialists
This team has specialist knowledge and skills in palliative care and supports patients with advanced illness, as well as those people important to them.
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Hospice In Your Home
Our Hospice in your Home service has been developed to provide care for people in their own homes. Our aim is to offer support additional to that being provided by other health and social care providers.
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Inpatient Care
Our inpatient unit has 14 individual beds. Patients are admitted following a referral from a GP, hospital or specialist community nurse.
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Medical Outpatient Services
Held in the Hospice’s Woodview Centre, the clinics provide assessments or review of patients with complex or rapidly changing symptoms who need specialist medical assessment.
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Counselling
Our counsellors can offer a variety of therapeutic interventions to identify and strengthen ways of coping, and to work through the feelings being experienced.
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The Learning Hub
The Wigan Borough Palliative and End of Life Care Learning Hub is based at the hospice. Our Practice Development Team (previously Hospice in your Care Home) leads on many of the education and training sessions alongside other experienced practitioners.
Our other services include....
Supporting those people important to our patients
We understand that when someone is ill this impacts on their family and others close to them. We offer complementary therapy, counselling and bereavement support to those who need them.
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