There is lots of information that can help patients and families navigate their way through hospice care. We have produced a range of fact sheets covering helpful topics from planning your future care to dealing with breathlessness.
Patients and Families Factsheets +
- Changes to the Reg. of Deaths (TORBAY & DEVON) 2020
- Planning for your future care
- Easy read future care plan
- Supportive and palliative care in heart failure
- What to expect when someone important to you is dying
- Advance decision pack
- Hospice at Home leaflet for patients and families
- Bereavement
- Bereavement resources
- Breathlessness
- Coping with dying
- Intimacy and personal relationships leaflet
- Medication and driving leaflet
- Palliative care and social work leaflet
- Patient admission to the Inpatient Unit
- Patients and carers resources booklet
- Rowcroft Hospice Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP)
- Your feedback leaflet
- Community Team leaflet
- Electronic patient information leaflet
- Relaxation leaflet
- Spirituality leaflet
- Access to your data
- Rowcroft Hospice Inpatient Unit information
Clinical Governance +
- Rowcroft Hospice Quality Account 2024-25
- Rowcroft Hospice Quality Account 2023–24
- Rowcroft Hospice Quality Account 2022–23
- Rowcroft Hospice Quality Account 2021-22
- Care Quality Commission full report 2021
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework Policy
- Rowcroft's Patient Safety Incident Response Plan
- Statement of Purpose May 2024
Other Useful Resources
Dying for beginners +
YouTube Video: Dying for Beginners, Dr Kathryn Mannix
Many people tell us they have not been present at a death before and are not sure what to expect. In this four minute animated video film by Emily Downe, a step by step journey describes the common experiences and natural phases that our bodies undergo as we die. If you think this is what you need to increase your understanding this film is here for you.
Helping you to provide care at home +
Informed: A Hospice in the Weald Online Guide
An online guide and videos helping you to provide care at home. This link will take you to Informed – a Hospice in the Weald website.
