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Leader Live
13-05-2025
- Health
- Leader Live
Wrexham hospice praises team on International Nurses Day
Nightingale House Hospice has praised its nursing team for the care they provide to patients and their families. The nurses at the hospice support people with progressive or life-limiting illnesses, helping them to 'live their fullest lives'. They deliver clinical care on the inpatient unit, manage symptoms in the wellbeing centre, and offer emotional support during difficult House Hospice health care assistants and Nurses with a patient celebrating International Nurses Day (Image: Nightingale House Hospice) Laura Singleton, ward manager at Nightingale House Hospice, said: "Being a hospice nurse is a privilege. "We're here to offer not just clinical care but a sense of peace and dignity. "It's about helping people feel supported and empowered, even in the most difficult circumstances." The nurses work closely with a multidisciplinary team, including GPs, doctors, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, complementary therapists, and social workers in the family support team and the spiritual care team. Laura Drummond, advanced nurse practitioner at the hospice, said: "Our role is to advocate for the needs and wishes of our patients and their families while managing complex symptoms and care plans. "Hospice nursing is about compassion, teamwork, and making a difference every single day." The nurses at Nightingale House also play a key role in the wellbeing centre, helping patients maintain their independence and improve their quality of life through tailored programmes and therapies. Carolyn James, wellbeing lead at Nightingale House, said: "Nurses are a crucial part of the wider care we offer at Nightingale House. Read more: Train operator to increase services on North Wales route North Wales hospitals have worst A+E waiting times in the country, figures show "Our holistic approach helps patients maintain independence and quality of life, and their emotional support is just as important as their clinical expertise." The hospice says its is on helping patients live well for as long as possible, despite a progressive or life-limiting illness. The nursing team embodies this philosophy daily, supporting patients and their loved ones with dignity, compassion and hope as they navigate their individual journeys'.
BBC News
02-03-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Katharine House Hospice joins calls for long-term financial help
An Oxfordshire hospice has joined calls for more long-term financial help to pay staff salaries, despite a government pledge of £100m for the House Hospice, in Adderbury, welcomed the capital grant for buildings and equipment but said wages and bills were "increasingly hard to cover".From April, hospices will face additional National Insurance contributions as well as national minimum wage CEO Emma Radley said she was "delighted" that the government was "recognising that hospices are underfunded". Louise Ludlow, who has late stage ovarian cancer, said she had "a very good experience" at Katharine House, adding: "The staff have all been wonderful and responsive to my symptom management."This time, they're helping me through this really difficult transition from being really well to dying and I feel comfortable and at peace." The hospice said it needs to raise £3.5m a year to fund 10 inpatient beds and a community team but it has been in deficit for the last couple of years and has recently let go five members of Radley told the BBC: "I think all hospices would say what we need is better funding for hospices every day."The revenue funding for nurses' salaries, doctors' salaries, gas, electric - all of those costs are going up and that is increasingly hard to cover." The government announced last year that hospices across England would receive £100m, saying families would see improved end-of-life care as a week, it confirmed the release of £25m for "facility upgrades and refurbishments" for hospices across additional £75m is due to be made available from announcement came after hospice leaders warned they were forced to close beds due to increasing financial department for health said it was "the biggest investment in hospices in a generation".Only about a third of hospice funding in England comes from the NHS, the rest has to be raised from donations, fundraising and charity shops. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
