Information for healthcare professionals
We have compiled some essential information and useful links for healthcare professionals who are treating end of life and palliative care patients.
The aim of this information hub is to simplify the actions that healthcare professionals should consider undertaking, when they have seen a patient who is approaching their end of life. On occasions, these arrangements can be done at a comfortable pace, but equally, they may have to be made speedily, often when the prescriber is on call.
Severn Hospice has provided the documents detailed below to solely provide ease of access to essential information for registered GPs and other suitably qualified healthcare professionals.
Whilst a number of documents are owned and produced by Severn Hospice others are not. Those which are not produced by Severn Hospice have been kindly provided by outside partners such as the Integrated Care Board (ICB).
Please note that Severn Hospice in no way claims to own, or have any control over, the documents produced by outside partners which are accessible through this website. Severn Hospice purely provides an easy access facility for clinicians to obtain important information and does not accept any liability for the contents of documents which are reproduced from this website.
Community Patient Specific Direction Forms
Prescribing information for pain and symptom control
All Patient Specific Direction Forms need to be printed as single-sided documents.
- Patient Specific Direction Morphine Sulphate PRN (JIC) Form 08.23
- Patient Specific Direction Morphine Sulphate Syringe Pump Form 08.23
- Patient Specific Direction Oxycodone Injection PRN Form 08.23
- Patient Specific Direction Oxycodone Injection Syringe Pump Form 08.23
- Patient Specific Direction Blank PRN (as required) Form 08.23
- Patient Specific Direction Syringe Pump Blank Form 08.23
- Drug Diluents information
- Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin ICB list of Tier 1 and Tier 2 pharmacies stocking palliative care medicines
Severn Hospice documents
To make a referral to the hospice and find out more about the services we provide, please click here.
Medicines, policies and prescribing information
- Severn Hospice Community Opioid Conversion Table 08.23
- Prescribing methadone: GP information
- Methadone for pain relief: patient information
- Prescribing dexamethasone: oral and subcut doses
- Prescribing Parecoxib: GP Continuation Prescribing Information
Other Patient Specific Direction (PSD) forms for other medicines
- PSD Regular subcut medicines Form 08.23
- PSD Parecoxib Form 08.23 (Consultant advice only)
- PSD Alfentanil Syringe Pump Form 08.23 (Consultant advice only)
All Patient Specific Direction Forms need to be printed as single-sided documents.
Patient information
Contact details for professionals
Useful links to other guides
- West Midlands Palliative Care – westmidspallcare.co.uk
- Palliative Care Matters (Wales) –pallcare.info
Shropdoc
All Wales Care Decisions Guidance and symptom control
To find the Care decisions guides in Welsh and English, please click here.