Links to useful organisations
Links

These sites are listed to be of help or service to you in searching for what you need.

Hospice, palliative care, and nursing care information:

Help the Hospices
Tel: 0207 520 8200
Web: www.helpthehospices.org.uk

Hospice Information Service
Tel: 0207 520 8200
Web: www.hospiceinformation.info

Hospice at Home
Web: www.hospiceathome.org.uk

Macmillan Cancerline
Tel: 0808 808 2020
Web: www.macmillan.org.uk

Marie Curie Cancer Care
Tel: 0207 599 7777
Web: www.mariecurie.org.uk

Sue Ryder Care
Tel: 0845 050 1953
www.suerydercare.org

End-of-life decision making:

Compassion in Dying
To download a free Advance Decision or for more information on end-of-life decision making
www.compassionindying.org.uk

Office of the Public Guardian
To appoint a Lasting Power of Attorney and for information about making decisions for someone else
www.publicguardian.gov.uk

Patient groups and older people's charities:

Age Concern
Tel: 0800 009 966
Web: www.ageconcern.org.uk

Help the Aged
Tel: 0207 278 1114
Web: www.helptheaged.org.uk

Counsel and Care
Tel: 0845 300 7585
Web: www.counselandcare.org.uk

Patient UK
Web: www.patient.co.uk

The Patients Association
Tel: 0845 608 4455
Web: www.patients-association.org.uk

Patient Concern
Web: www.patientconcern.org.uk

Motor Neurone Disease Association
Tel: 0845 762 6262
Web: www.mndassociation.org

Huntingdon's Disease Association
Tel: 0151 298 3298
Web: www.hda.org.uk

MS Society
Tel: 0808 800 8000
Web: www.mssociety.org.uk

Parkinson's Disease Society
Tel: 0808 800 0303
Web: www.parkinsons.org.uk

Terence Higgins Trust
Tel: 0845 122 1200
Web: www.tht.org.uk

Other useful contacts:

Citizens Advice Bureau
Web: www.citizensadvice.org.uk

Carers UK
CarersLine: 0808 808 7777
Web: www.carersonline.org.uk

Cruse Bereavement Care
Tel: 0844 477 9400
Web: www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk

Office of the Public Guardian
Tel: 0845 330 2900
Web: www.publicguardian.gov.uk

MedicAlert
Tel: 0800 581 420
Web: www.medicalert.org.uk

The Benefit Enquiry Line
Tel: 0800 88 22 00
Web: www.direct.gov.uk

The Disability Living Allowance/Attendance Allowance Helpline
Tel: 08457 123 456
Web: www.direct.gov.uk

Carer's Allowance Unit
Tel: 01253 856 123
Web: www.direct.gov.uk

Financial Help for the Bereaved
There is no central telephone number but you can find out more from your local Jobcentre Plus.
Web: www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Death

Natural Death Centre
Tel: 0871 288 2098
Web: http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk

Samaritans
Tel: 08457 909090
Email: jo@samaritans.org
www.samaritans.org

The British Pain Society
Tel: 020 7269 7840
Email: info@britishpainsociety.org

Care Quality Commission
Tel: 03000 616161
www.cqc.org.uk

Online resources:

Information about coping with a terminal illness:
www.terminalillness.co.uk

Downloadable Preferred Priorities for Care form: http://www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk/eolc/ppc.htm

To claim benefits online:
www.dwp.gov.uk/eservice

To download a Disability Living Allowance claim pack:
www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/DisabilityLivingAllowance/DG_10011925.

To download an Attendance Allowance claim pack: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/AttendanceAllowance/DG_10012442

To claim Carers Allowance online:
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/carersallowance

For help registering a death visit:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/bereavement_radio.dsb?pro=BDT

A checklist of what to do when someone dies is available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Death/WhatToDoAfterADeath/DG_10029808

Entitled To - a website providing information on benefits and tax credits:
http://www.entitledto.co.uk

Turn2Us - a website providing information on benefits and financial help:
http://www.turn2us.org.uk