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Supportive and Palliative Care
Last updated on Tuesday, February 10, 2026
What is Supportive and Palliative Care? Supportive and Palliative Care focuses on assessing the needs of patients and those close to them, to make sure what matters most to them is our priority too. The aim of palliative care is to maximise a person’s quality of life by treating and relieving sy...
read moreCancer
Last updated on Thursday, June 13, 2024
The population of the Wirral is currently 320,220, with a national ratio of 1:3 affected by cancer and 1:4 deaths annually are cancer related. WUTH diagnosis over 3,000 new cancers each year. Over 50% of people diagnosed survive beyond 10 years and It is estimated that there are 11,500 people liv...
read moreWhat is palliative care?
Last updated on Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Palliative care is clinical care that is focused on meeting the holistic needs of a person with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness. For example, a person living with cancer may decide to stop curative treatment such as chemotherapy, whether or not they show signs that they are at the end...
read moreYear 4 Student Doctors (Liverpool)
Last updated on Monday, November 24, 2025
Year 4 Student Doctors (Liverpool) In the University of Liverpool's MBChB Year 4 curriculum, students experience more specialized and challenging clinical placements, including mental health, neurology, and specialized areas of paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and oncology. They also und...
read moreAcute Oncology
Last updated on Thursday, April 6, 2023
The Acute Oncology Team (AOT) ensures that cancer patients who are admitted to our hospital have optimal management of their treatment, or cancer related complication, with timely discharge and onward referral to oncology/palliative care services. If a patient presents with a new cancer diagnosi...
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WUTH supportive and palliative care team leaflet
Modified: 10/02/2026 10:47AM | Download: WUTH supportive and palliative care team leafletThis document can also be found in: Supportive and Palliative Care