THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HOSPICE LIMITED
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Mission Statement
Nottinghamshire Hospice is a charity providing end of life care and emotional support for adults in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
About This Cause
Founded in 1980, Nottinghamshire Hospice is a community-based palliative care centre which provides high quality care services to adults who have terminal and life-limiting illnesses, and their families and carers. We are regulated by the Care Quality Commission and all our services are delivered and based on individual patient needs: it is a way of caring for people. We aim to add life to days for people that have been told that their illness cannot be cured. We help people who are thought to be in the last year of their life to live as actively and well as possible with care that puts the highest value on dignity, choice and respect. The help and care our services provide to patients, and their loved ones, is holistic. We offer compassionate nursing care to help meet physical needs, social support to help tackle loneliness or isolation and counselling and chaplaincy to support spiritual needs. Our three main services are: 1. Day therapy – coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis can be very hard, especially if you live alone or with a partner who is struggling to cope. We provide the only dedicated unit in Nottinghamshire for people with a terminal diagnosis. Every day, up to 35 people attend, giving carers a much needed break. Our palliative care nurses, backed by a team of doctors, physiotherapists, counsellors, complimentary therapists, and volunteers, provide physical symptom and pain management, emotional support and, perhaps most important for all of those living alone, companionship. 2. Hospice at home – our team of palliative care nurses help a patient and their family to define what a ‘good death’ means for them. For the vast majority, it means dying at home, as free from pain as possible, with their family close by. We provide calm, compassionate and caring support from referral to death, managing pain and giving over-worked carers a break. 3. Counselling and Bereavement Support – as most people want to die at home, this can place an enormous strain on family carers. Often the carer must cope with the emotional strain of grief for their terminally-ill loved one. With the focus of the medical profession on the patient, the needs of the carer can be forgotten. In 2015/16, our small team of one employed and seven volunteer counsellors supported 75 carers finding it difficult to cope. In addition, our team of three bereavement support volunteers provided peer support to 250 bereaved people who were traumatised by their loss. Each year we need to raise £2.7 million to be able to deliver our current services which means we are reliant on the wonderful support of our local community. Terminal and life-limiting illness can affect any family at any time. We want our local communities to continue to be able to live well and, with our support, die well. We want people to be assured that, if they or their family are affected, Nottinghamshire Hospice will be there to support them.