Farleigh Hospice has joined fellow East Anglian hospices, St Elizabeth Hospice and St Helena Hospice, in a joint Hospice Education Partnership initiative.
The three hospices provide compassionate care to people in their local communities who are living with life-limiting conditions, so they can enjoy the best quality of life possible and die with dignity.
Farleigh, St Elizabeth and St Helena Hospices are now working together to provide an extensive range of education, training, learning and development sessions – both online and in person – in palliative and end of life care.
These sessions will be available to the hospices’ staff and volunteers as well as healthcare professionals across mid and north east Essex and Suffolk through to Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
Mandy Summons, Head of Hospice Education, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Farleigh Hospice into Hospice Education. By working together, we can broaden access to quality palliative and end of life education, sharing expertise across our teams, and supporting staff and partners with learning that is practical, inclusive and responsive to need.
“This partnership strengthens our ambition to deliver consistent, best practice palliative and end of life care education. Together, we’ll expand learning opportunities and build a stronger community to improve support for people living with life-limiting illness.”
The three hospices recently signed a joint memorandum of understanding to confirm their new partnership in Hospice Education.
Kate Tighe, Head of Nursing, Inpatient Care and Education at Farleigh Hospice, said, “We are excited to be working alongside St Helena and St Elizabeth Hospices, led by Mandy, in this innovative new partnership. Together we will shape education that is relevant, practical and supportive of palliative and end of life care for the benefit of our local communities.”
To find out more information about Hospice Education, email training@hospiceeducation.org.uk
or visit www.bit.ly/HospiceEducation .
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Photo: Rachel Maddock, Head of Clinical Quality and Performance at Farleigh Hospice; Ellie Miller, Director of Care at Farleigh Hospice; Mandy Summons, Head of Hospice Education; and Kate Tighe, Head of Nursing, Inpatient Care and Education at Farleigh Hospice.
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About St Elizabeth Hospice
St Elizabeth Hospice improves life for people in East and Mid-Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our work is centred on an individual’s needs, which means specialist support, whenever and wherever it is needed, whether at home, in the community or at the hospice. Through medicine and therapy we ease pain; we give life purpose and make life liveable.
To find out more information about St Elizabeth Hospice call 01473 727776 or visit www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk
About St Helena Hospice
St Helena Hospice was established in 1985 and provides specialist end of life care and support for people living in north east Essex who face incurable illness and bereavement.
They support members of their community, helping them make their own choices and live with dignity. Their support is provided where and when it is needed, whether at home, at the hospice or over the phone through their 24/7/advice line, SinglePoint.
More than 90% of support is carried out by the hospice in the Home team in people’s own place of residence. 80% of the income needed to run St Helena Hospice is raised through the local community giving donations; buying in shops; playing Your Hospice Lottery; and leaving gifts in Wills. Vital funds for St Helena Hospice are also raised through supporting its commercial and social enterprise activities.
For more information – www.sthelena.org.uk
About Farleigh Hospice
Farleigh Hospice is a charity that provides compassionate care and support to adults living with life-limiting illnesses, and bereavement support to their families and carers, across mid Essex.
At any one time, our doctors, nurses, counsellors and therapists take care of the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of over 500 people in our community. This can be in the comfort of their own homes or in our specialist Inpatient Unit in the hospice.
It costs over £21,000 every day to provide our services free of charge. We can only do this thanks to the kind support of our local community, who help fund our care through donations, gifts in wills and money raised from fundraising activities.
For more information, visit www.farleighhospice.org
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