Wellbeing Centre
Lindsey Lodge’s outpatient facilities operate from its Wellbeing Centre, based at the hospice and provide care for adults aged 18 years and over, who are registered with a North Lincolnshire or East Riding GP and have a life-limiting or terminal condition in advanced, or progressive stages.
Lindsey Lodge Hospice and Healthcare launched its new-look Outpatient Service in April 2023.
Patients referred into the Wellbeing Centre are now offered one of two pathways (Health or Social) following a holistic assessment. This will be based on the patient goals and is designed and planned by the patient and family/carer with support from the multidisciplinary team at Lindsey Lodge Hospice.
We offer holistic support for both physical and emotional symptoms, along with goal setting, advanced care planning, memory work and access to social group work and activities. Our services are able to provide specialist support for patients who may have difficulties with their care needs, or who have frequent hospital admissions due to a specific symptom, as well as for those patients where a recent diagnosis requires radical treatment, which may have overwhelming symptoms.
The referral form is available to download HERE and provides a single point of access into our hospice co-ordination centre.
All outpatients will be triaged by our team of specialist healthcare professionals to understand individual patient-led goals, before being offered support that we believe will improve their overall patient experience.
Patients who follow the Wellbeing pathway, will be supported by Lindsey Lodge’s healthcare assistants and advanced assistants, who will provide an environment that will enhance their overall psychological wellbeing, through regular social interaction, and meaningful activities. It will offer an opportunity to explore reintegration in the community, help to alleviate boredom, prevent social isolation and provide much-needed carer support.
We offer a daily plan of activities including chair based exercise, crafting, gardening, memory making, visualisation and relaxation, which patients can attend, as well as time set aside each day for clinics with our medical team and advanced care practitioners.
The Health pathway will offer patients interventions led by their own individual specific goals and incorporate an in-depth holistic assessment, with standardised outcome measures. These will be delivered through outpatient appointments and reviewed within the period agreed at the point of assessment.
This patient centred approach offers patients the opportunity to set their own goals, and review their progress.
Our medical team and advanced care practitioners will provide oversight and guidance with intervention to support achievement of personal goals, with time set aside to review all patients on a weekly basis with individual case workers.
We work closely with local health partners to ensure patients who are eligible for our service, receive the best possible care and support.
For more information about the Wellbeing Outpatient Service, please contact the team on 01724 270835.
General Information
The Wellbeing Centre is open Monday to Friday between 9am and 4pm.
Our friendly and dedicated team of staff and volunteers are committed to providing an excellent service and meeting the needs of individuals. They are on hand and happy to talk to you if you have any concerns or worries about your care whilst attending the centre.
What we can offer
- One to one support by various members of the clinical team
- Complementary therapies and relaxations
- Mindfulness
- Arts and crafts and creative therapy
- Memory work
- Chair based exercise
- Fatigue and Breathlessness (FAB) clinics
- Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy
- Psychological support
- Lymphoedema clinic
- Counselling and pre/post bereavement support
- Advance Care Plannng
- Pastoral Support
Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
The aim of therapeutic rehabilitation is to promote participation in meaningful life activities to maximise independence and explore ways of completing your valued daily activities your way. An individual, person-centred assessment is offered to identify your current and potential abilities. Occupational therapists and physiotherapists use a problem-solving approach with you and your family to help reduce the barriers preventing participation in activities such as work, exercise, rest, sleep, leisure, personal cares, domestic tasks and more. Treatment may include:
- Exercise prescription
- Physical activity
- Energy management strategies
- Using and prescribing adaptive equipment
- Falls prevention
- Cognitive assessment and rehabilitation
- Posture and seating
- Anxiety management
- Emotional and psychological support
- Ergonomic assessments
- Relaxation techniques
Fatigue and Breathlessness (FAB) Service
This service is for people who have cancer or a progressive life limiting disease, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or heart failure, that affects their energy and breathing. We will teach you techniques to help you to manage your fatigue and breathlessness better. We will, if appropriate, advise you about the following:
- Breathing control techniques
- Positions to help alleviate breathlessness
- Fan therapy
- How to conserve energy during everyday activities
- How to pace, plan and prioritise activities
- How to manage anxiety/panic attacks
- Relaxation techniques
- Sleep hygiene
- Chest clearance techniques
- Exercises
- Advice on managing meaningful daily tasks such as washing, dressing, working, gardening
- Goal setting
Enablement Gym
Our ‘Positive Moves’ enablement gym is situated in the heart of the wellbeing centre and is accessible for all patients known to the hospice, including those staying on our inpatient unit. The equipment in place is designed to improve cardiovascular fitness alongside building strength and stamina, but above all, support people to remain active. For many individuals, the gym provides a different environment to engage in exercise which is proven to benefit both physical and psychological wellbeing – particularly when diagnosed and living with a life limiting condition
Currently, the gym enables our physiotherapist, occupational therapist and advanced assistants to provide rehabilitation in both a one to one or group format.
Breathe Easy Enablement Programme
The Breathe Easy Enablement Programme (also known as BEEP) has been designed and developed by Lindsey Lodge Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist and Advanced Care Practitioner Occupational Therapist to support individuals diagnosed with complex respiratory conditions.
BEEP runs over a period of eight weeks and delivers a programme of exercise in the Lindsey Lodge enablement gym for the patient, as well as separate carer support sessions and a joint education session for both patient and their carer. The sessions cover a number of topics including breathlessness management, fatigue management, advanced care planning, recognising red flags (prevention of hospital admission), anxiety/low mood management and relaxation.
The programme is delivered by a number of healthcare professionals including therapists, our specialist palliative care consultant and counselling team alongside community providers including the respiratory complex care matrons.
Referrals
Anyone wishing to refer themselves, or a patient they are caring for, can phone 01724 270835, Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 4.30pm. Following the referral the patient will be invited to the Hospice for an assessment, which will be carried out by health professionals in the Lindsey Lodge Team, who can then work with the patient and their family around care planning, and the services that may benefit them going forward.
Contact us
This area of the website aims to give a general introduction to all our patient services, as well as answering some of the questions you may have about Lindsey Lodge Hospice. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to call us on 01724 270835 or email llh.enquiries@nhs.net