Marie Curie is the UK’s leading provider of care and support for terminal illness, death, dying, and bereavement. Below is a list of
available Marie Curie services.
If a service is not available in your area there may be something similar. Please speak with your GP or District Nurse.
Information and Support Service
This service provides
- Information and support
- A bereavement service from trained volunteers (please note this is not a counselling service)
- Check in and chat service from trained volunteers
- Our support Line offers an interpreting service and can be translated into 200 different languages
- The guides cover everything from supporting someone with a terminal diagnosis and talking about illness, to bereavement, to living with terminal illness. – booklets can be ordered as a print or downloaded as a print.
Call – 0800 090 2309
Online – mariecurie.org.uk/help/support
Workplace Bereavement
Online information only, support and guidance for employers and employees.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support/bereaved-family-friends/work
Helper Service
Our Helper service can offer you regular support in your home from a trained volunteer. Whether it’s having someone to chat with over a cup of tea, help you get an appointment or run an errand, or just to be there to listen when you need a friendly ear. This is a self referral service, please contact directly.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/helper-volunteers
Regional contact numbers –
www.mariecurie.org.uk/professionals/patient-services/helper#local
How to get a Marie Curie Nurse
We offer free nursing care to people with all terminal illnesses across the UK, as well as support for family and friends. Our nurses generally provide one-to-one nursing care and support overnight in your home, usually for eight or nine hours. In some areas, we also offer care for a shorter period of time, or during the evening or day time, as well as care at very short notice in a crisis.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/nursing-services
Hospice Services
Our nine hospices offer inpatient and outpatient care and a broad range of day therapies to meet the needs of individual patients with a range of terminal conditions. Many also provide support in the community. Find out more about the services offered by each hospice and the referrals process.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/professionals/patient-services/hospices
Talk about it
A website to support people to talk about death, dying and bereavement. Sharing experiences and ways to approach the topic. This is online information only.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/talkabout
Our Podcaqsts: On the Coach
Listen in a a host of well-known guests open up and share their experiences with grief and death in a therapeutic conversation with Marie Curie bereavement expert, Jason Davidson.