Doctors

Pilgrims Hospices doctors use their medical skills and knowledge to help with the management and control of symptoms that may be troubling patients, such as pain, nausea, vomiting, constipation or breathlessness.

They may visit you in your own home, at an outpatient clinic at one of the hospices, during a hospice stay or during a stay at a local NHS hospital to provide advice on symptom control.

Each hospice has a team led by a Consultant in palliative medicine, an Associate Specialist or Hospice Physician who will usually have many years experience of working in palliative care, staff grade doctors who have chosen to work in palliative care, clinical assistants who combine working at the hospices with working as a GP and doctors training to be GPs who want to gain experience in palliative care.

The team is overseen by the medical director.

Pilgrims Hospices doctors do not replace your general practitioner, so you should contact your GP for your general medical care in the usual way.