Palliative Care

When an illness cannot be cured, Palliative Care is available to help manage distressing or complex symptoms and provide support.

The Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District's (ISLHD's) Palliative Care Service works with care teams, like GPs and other specialists, to provide comfort and quality of life, while you or your loved one gets on with living.

Our Palliative Care staff assess patient and carer needs, and consider personal wishes and goals for care.

Palliative Care teams include doctors, nurses, allied health staff, social workers and volunteers. 

They provide:

  • regular assessments and treatments to target symptoms such as pain, nausea, breathlessness and anxiety
  • support for physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs
  • access to specialist support in any ISLHD hospital, residential aged care facility or at home
  • access to loan equipment to care safely at home
  • access to after-hours support
  • ongoing professional and volunteer support to family members and carers.

All services are free of charge.

 

Enquiries: 1300 068 458

Referrals: ISLHD-AccessandReferralCentre@health.nsw.gov.au

Urgent referrals: 1300 792 755

Full list of Palliative Care services

Allied Health Services - Palliative Care Illawarra-Shoalhaven
Illawarra / Shoalhaven
1300 068 458
Community Specialist Palliative Care Services - Illawarra-Shoalhaven
Illawarra / Shoalhaven
1300 068 458
Palliative Care Equipment Loan Pool - Illawarra-Shoalhaven
Port Kembla Hospital
02 4223 8263
Palliative Care Equipment Loan Pool - Illawarra-Shoalhaven
David Berry Hospital
02 4464 6948
Primary Health Nurses (Generalist) - Community Health
District-wide service
1300 068 458
C6 West Ward Inpatient Service - Illawarra
Wollongong Hospital
Specialist Palliative Care Inpatient Service - Illawarra
Port Kembla Hospital
02 4223 8000
Specialist Palliative Care Inpatient Service - Shoalhaven
David Berry Hospital
02 4464 6928
Volunteer Services - Illawarra
Illawarra
0439 443 387
Volunteer Services - Shoalhaven
Shoalhaven
0428 113 492
Bereavement Counselling Service
District
1300 068 458
Bereavement Service
District
1300 068 458