Mental health Services in Hillingdon

Offers support and advice on palliative care issues to GPs, Care Homes, District Nurses and hospital doctors.

It is also an Advice Line for patients and families who live in Hillingdon and need advice on any aspect of palliative care. 

The Advice Line is answered by hospice nurses in the Inpatient Unit and queries are escalated to the on-call palliative medical team if needed.

The Admiral Nurses at Dementia UK provide information, advice and support with any aspect of dementia.

The specialist dementia nurses offer free and confidential support via the Helpline for you when you need help.

The Alzheimer's Society dementia advisors can help people living with dementia and their carers. They can provide practical help and emotional support via the telephone support or the online community connecting those in similar situations.

CNWL Talking Therapies Service provides psychological therapies. Self-referral accepted via the website for adults who are registered with a Brent, Harrow or Hillingdon GP.

Support is available for a range of difficulties, such as low mood or depression, anxiety, and stress, phobias, physical health anxiety, PTSD and Insomnia.

Compassionate Hillingdon is a collaborative project that supports people who might need support in Hillingdon. Their work revolves around a commitment to those living with a life limiting illness, older people and those suffering from isolation. They do this by facilitating reciprocal friendships between like minded people who live close to one another across Hillingdon.

This project is part of the ‘Compassionate Communities’ movement. Compassionate Communities is built on a combined ethos of a Public Health Approach to Community Development, Palliative and End of Life Care.

The Wellbeing Hub is an online tool and resource hub developed to empower Hillingdon residents’ and improve overall feelings of wellbeing. 

It provides modern, hospice wellbeing information alongside other types of wellbeing support. The wellbeing hub empowers people to enhance feelings of wellbeing in a holistic way. The online tool provides support with information to better support each person's own, unique wellbeing journey, by encouraging the setting of personal goals and accomplish tasks that align with individual wellbeing aspirations. Goals such as completing tasks (by creating and sharing a bucket list) and documenting wishes such as an advance care plan can take place.