A stay in a hospice is usually arranged through your Hospital Consultant, General Practitioner (GP or family doctor) or Macmillan Nurse (specialist cancer care nurse).

Stays can be for respite as well as to care for people who are terminally ill; pain control will also be available.

Hospices in this area are:

• East Anglia's Children's Hospice, Milton, Cambridge Tel: 01223 205180
• Sue Ryder Care Centre, Thorpe Hall
  Thorpe Road, Longthorpe, Peterborough Tel: 01733 330 060
• Arthur Rank House Hospice. Brookfields Hospital, 351 Mill Road Cambridge Tel: 01223 723 110
• Hospice at Home - Caring for people at Home Tel 01223 723 133 - opening hours Mon - Fri - 8.30 to 4.30pm.  For weekends and holidays, ring Arthur Rank Hospital on 01223 723 110 for nurse on call.