Ninewells acute palliative care unit

1 January 2009

Thanks to donors across Tayside, NHS Tayside opened a dedicated three-bedded acute palliative care unit at Ninewells Hospital in 2009, staffed by specialists delivering intensive short-stay care and symptom control.

Thanks to the kind people of Tayside, enough money was raised to allow NHS Tayside to provide a 3-bedded acute palliative care unit, which opened in 2009. The unit was designed to offer intensive, short-stay palliative care to patients in need.

State of the art symptom control was and continues to be carried out by a team of palliative specialists including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, a complementary therapist and pharmacist on a daily basis at Ninewells Hospital.