Services in Mid Essex

This service is available Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 10.00pm. Saturday and Sunday 9.00am to 5.00pm. Clinicians can call the Oncology Registrar on-call at Southend Hospital bleep 4001.

Outside of these hours clinicians can call the Oncology Consultant on call via Southend Hospital switchboard on 01702 435555.

Bliss offers a wide range of free services for the families of premature and sick babies including a video call support service.

The support group is a way to learn more about living with a lung condition and share your experiences and stories with others.

The British Lymphology Society provides a directory of Lymphoedema treatment services.

Use the website address above to find your local services.

The Children's Community Nursing Service team provides nursing care for children and young people with a health need including palliative care in their own home or the community and includes training and support for families and carers. The primary aim is to prevent hospital admission, attendance and length of hospital stay through supporting a family to care for their child at home or within their local community.

This service covers Mid Essex excluding Halstead.

The team provides clinical service for palliative care patients in their own home.

Treatments include:

• Wound management for trauma and chronic wounds.
• Lower-leg care for various types of ulcerations.
• Post-operative care, transitioning to GP Practice nurses once ambulant.
• Administration of medication by injection (excluding oral medications and eye drops).
• Management of urinary catheters and bowel issues.
• End of life or palliative care.
• Supporting self-care for patients and carers, including administering injections, PICC lines, eye drops, and dressings.

The advice line provides access to a member of the hospice team who is able to give advice on symptoms, nursing care and other needs relating to life-limiting/palliative care needs and available between 8.00am and 8.00pm, 7 days a week.

Please call the advice line when:

• advice is needed regarding hospice care and support
• advice or information is needed regarding the management of symptoms
• concerns about symptoms that need to be addressed before your next scheduled visit/appointment
• reassurance is required for someone who is anxious about a change in their condition

The team include Clinical Nurse Specialists, Registered Nurses and Health Care Assistants. They are experts in pain and symptom control and provide:

• Specialist Physiotherapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Complementary Therapy
• Social Work
• Counselling 
• Family Support Practitioners

The team provides clinical service for palliative care patients in their own home.

Hub hours for referrals are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm.

LymphConnect is an online platform developed to help manage lymphoedema or lipoedema, understand more about the condition, share experiences and get support and advice.

The team provides clinical expertise, support and practical help for those with Lymphoedema and live across Mid Essex.

Macmillan provide cancer information, support and help everyone with cancer live life as fully as they can.

Visit the website to get help with paying bills, advice on benefits or treatment, or to just chat.

Marie Curie provide support for patients and carers through terminal illness.

Find information and support through the telephone helpline and online chat via their website.

Other services include Marie Curie nurses, Hospice care, helper and companion services.

Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity supports families who have a child aged 0 to18 years with a life-threatening or terminal illness.

This service is for any persons over the age of 18 and supports the management of complex wound care, via clinic based appointments, or homevisits depending on the need of the service user.

Please complete the SystmOne referral form.

Together for Short Lives have a helpline and family support hub to provide help and advice for those caring for a child with a serious illness.

All calls are answered by a senior triage nurse in the Single Point of Access, who will assess the case and advise if the service is able to stabilise and manage the patient.

The rapid resonse team aim to visit the patient within two hours.

Young lives vs Cancer support young people under 25 with cancer, and their families, to get the help they need during their cancer treatment and beyond, including bereaved families living with emotional distress.