West Local Health Unit invests in the creation of a Community Palliative Care Support Team

The Oeste Local Health Unit has created a Community Palliative Care Support Team. The newly created Oeste Community Palliative Care Support Team is part of the ULSO's Integrated Palliative Care Service (SICP) and recently began providing assistance to residents in the municipalities of Torres Vedras and Sobral Monte Agraço.

"The ECSCP of the ULS Oeste is responsible for providing specialized care to people with life-limiting, advanced, progressive or terminal illnesses, in a community and home context," clarified those responsible for the ULSO, noting that "it is a multidisciplinary team, with differentiated training in Palliative Care, which acts according to a holistic vision of the person" and that "ensures the continuous assessment of needs, the preparation of the Individual Intervention Plan, as well as the training of family members and caregivers, guaranteeing continuity and adaptation throughout the care and grieving process."

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The ECSCP of the ULS Oeste “ensures differentiated support and advice in Palliative Care to the Primary Health Care teams and the Units of the National Network of Integrated Continuing Care, namely the Integrated Continuing Care Teams (ECCI) that provide home care and promote palliative actions, as well as the teams of the Integrated Continuing Care Inpatient Units, where palliative actions are provided”, they add, noting that “the consultancy process aims to strengthen the teams' capacity, promote the continuity and integration of care and ensure inter-institutional coordination between the different levels of care provision”.

In a note sent to the media, the Board of Directors of the ULS do Oeste “congratulates the Community Palliative Care Support Team for the start of its activity, highlighting its relevance in providing humanized and close home care” and argues that “this intervention guarantees the permanence of the user with palliative needs in their family and community environment, promoting dignity, quality of life and an adequate response to the growing needs of people with advanced or terminal illness”.

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