For Patients

Hospice Malta’s multidisciplinary professional team performs assessments and follow up visits to give the necessary support and advice to patients and their family. Professionals include doctors, nurses, psychologist, social workers, complementary therapist, physiotherapist as well as Hospice’s Spiritual Director.

Located within Hospice Malta premises, staff and volunteers at the Day Therapy Unit offer various activities for patients who visit for a morning. This also acts as a form of respite, allowing relatives of patients to leave their loved ones in a safe and secure environment for a short period of time. Various therapies are also carried out during these sessions.

Group and individual physiotherapy is carried out in the pool, allowing for patients to carry out some passive physical exercises, apart from acting as respite for their relatives.

Care is delivered at the patient’s home to support and offer respite to the family. As of 2015, this service has been extended (according to established admission criteria) to support patients and relatives during the following situations – an emergency crisis situation such as hospitalisation of main carer and at the very end stages of life. In such cases, the service is provided for one week followed by a review. This has already proven to be a very important service enabling patients to remain in their own home (and in turn reducing the need to use government hospital services) as well as enabling patients to be discharged from hospital earlier as the needed support is provided at their own home.

Delivered through special vans for wheelchair mobile patients and volunteer drivers with their private cars. One van is used solely for transporting of oncology hospital patients. More than 200 patients make use of this service every year.

This essential service enables patients living in their own home to be cared for with dignity and with as much independence as possible. Equipment ranges from walking sticks to electric beds and syringe drivers and is given to the patients following a detailed assessment of their needs.

Our support allows for follow up on Hospice Malta patients, as well as support in devising discharge plans within the hospital and referrals of new patients.

This formal and detailed programme for children of patients and main carers is offered during the summer holidays for 10 weeks and involves different activities, games and outings as well as the socio-emotional help that could be required.

Continuation of service after office hours is provided through a telephone support line to patients and their families after hours till 10.30pm and all day (till 10.30pm) during weekends and public holidays. Sponsored by Social Impact Award.

On-Call Number: 79 22 88 22

As of 2015, the services of a psychologist are being offered to Hospice registered patients. Individual and group sessions are delivered by Hospice Malta’s psychologist according to patients’ needs.

Targeting the psycho-social and emotional aspect, this is another important service enabling holistic care. Bereavement support is given to relatives and significant others through memorial service, one to one bereavement sessions as well as structured bereavement support groups. Apart from delivering the latter mentioned groups to relatives of Hospice Malta’s registered patients, during the past year this service was also extended in the community through the various local parishes.