St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth provides specialist palliative care to people with life limiting illnesses, and support to their carers.  The hospice works in close partnership with colleagues in the St Luke’s Services community and hospital palliative care teams, as part of an integrated palliative care service covering Plymouth and its environs.

St Luke’s Hospice also works in partnership with the local Primary Care Trusts, Derriford Hospital and other care providers to deliver care which is complementary to that provided by the NHS.

The hospice provides inpatient care twenty-four hours a day and three hundred and sixty five days a year.  We also provide a 24 hour telephone advice service that is available to all health care professionals, patients and their families and carers. At the moment the hospice also shares outpatient services with our Pearn site, hosting a general palliative care clinic once a week, and a pain clinic alternate weeks.  There are two other clinics per week at Pearn.

As well as providing high quality care to patients and carers, the hospice is also involved in training and education of other professionals, and in introducing the next generation of doctors to hospice work.  Medical students from Peninsula Medical School have placements at the hospice, and as well as our established team of permanent doctors, we have a junior doctor working with us as part of the Plymouth GP Training Scheme and a Specialist Registrar on the South West Palliative Medicine training rotation.