For healthcare professionals – St Columba’s Hospice Palliative Care, Edinburgh

How to refer your patient

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If you would like your patient to benefit from St Columba’s Hospice Care, please access us using SCI Gateway.

Access SCI Gateway

If you’re referring from hospital, please fill in the electronic form and email it to us at sch.access@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

Please fill out all the details as fully as possible as this will ensure we can process your request as quickly as possible.

For further information, visit NHS Lothian Palliative Care.

Discover more about Palliative Care

Education

Whether you provide specialist or generalist palliative care, and work in the community, hospital, care home or hospice, there is something here for you.

Research

We initiate, drive and participate in research that ensures people with illnesses and their families receive the highest possible quality of care.

Project ECHO

We use ECHO to widen access to palliative care knowledge and skills by supporting health and social care professionals who deliver palliative care in settings other than in a hospice.

Education

Whether you provide specialist or generalist palliative care, and work in the community, hospital, care home or hospice, there is something here for you.

Research

We initiate, drive and participate in research that ensures people with illnesses and their families receive the highest possible quality of care.

Project ECHO

We use ECHO to widen access to palliative care knowledge and skills by supporting health and social care professionals who deliver palliative care in settings other than in a hospice.

Events for professionals

Our Nursing Palliative Care Network shares specialist palliative care education and support with district and community nurses in our local region.

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