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Busselton Hospice Care provides the following services free of charge through our professionally trained volunteers:

• Bereavement Support Service 
• Complementary Therapy Service 
• Support for the Hospice Unit within the Busselton Health Campus 
• Home visiting volunteer service

Palliative care offers expert care to relieve a person’s pain and suffering, and to respond to their social, emotional, cultural, and spiritual needs. Support is also available to family and friends providing care.

You can ask for palliative care any time from your diagnosis and throughout your illness. It can help with pain and other symptoms and improve your quality of life at any time during your illness. Palliative care may increase, reduce or stop, as your needs change. It is not limited to the last days or weeks of life.

Ask your GP or your specialist doctor to refer you to a palliative care service. A doctor’s referral is essential for palliative care in hospital.

Winner of Outstanding Organisation and recipient of the Douglas McAllister Perpetual Trophy for  Excellence in Palliative Care.

Our upcoming training and education include the Lasting Words program, and Grief and Bereavement First Aid training. To find out more contact us today.