ST LUKE'S HOSPICE
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Mission Statement
We look after people over 18 from across the Sheffield region, with all kinds of terminal illnesses, including end stage neurological, heart, kidney and lung conditions, cancer and HIV. Each year, we help around 1,600 patients – some of them come to the hospice but many more are looked after at home by our team of community nurses, who help treat and alleviate pain, support and counsel and in some cases, help patients to die at home, if that’s what they want. Most people want to die at home, and we help to enable that to happen if we can. It’s not just patients that we help either – we extend support, counselling and practical help to family members too. Everything we do is dependent on 180 amazing staff and a phenomenal team of over 700 volunteers, all of them giving time, expertise and effort. Besides that, we have a legion of supporters and donors who raise money tirelessly to make it all possible. In fact, of the £8.7 million it takes to deliver our services each year, £6.1 m
About This Cause
We look after people over 18 from across the Sheffield region, with all kinds of terminal illnesses, including end stage neurological, heart, kidney and lung conditions, cancer and HIV. Each year, we help around 1,600 patients – some of them come to the hospice but many more are looked after at home by our team of community nurses, who help treat and alleviate pain, support and counsel and in some cases, help patients to die at home, if that’s what they want. Most people want to die at home, and we help to enable that to happen if we can. It’s not just patients that we help either – we extend support, counselling and practical help to family members too. And the people who help us… Everything we do is dependent on 180 amazing staff and a phenomenal team of over 700 volunteers, all of them giving time, expertise and effort. Besides that, we have a legion of supporters and donors who raise money tirelessly to make it all possible. In fact, of the £8.7 million it takes to deliver our services each year, £6.1 million of that has to come from donations… and that means a lot of running, cake-baking and pie-eating help from our friends. Every customer at our St Luke’s charity shops helps too, adding to the income we receive from our retail outlets across the city. How many people do we help? Here at the hospice, at any one time we’re caring for 20 patients in our In Patient Centre – 400 in any one year. Meanwhile, at any one time throughout the city our 17 community nurses are caring for around 400 patients in their own homes – around 1,400 every year. And every year individual programmes of therapies, treatments and advice at our Therapies and Rehabilitation Centre help some 350 patients to live independently at home for as long as possible. Each year, our work touches the lives of around 5,000 people.