St Helena Hospice has awarded an accreditation certificate to a Colchester care home for its good professional standards of end of life care.
Milton Lodge on Ipswich Road, Colchester, completed a range of training, shadowing and critical friend visits provided by St Helena through its Hospice Education programme, to develop the skills of their workforce and achieve best practice in end of life care.
Imelda Hodgkinson, practice educator at St Helena, worked closely with Milton Lodge, and praised the care home team:
“It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the team at Milton Lodge. From the moment I stepped in the door they made me feel really welcome and I could just see this is the residents’ home.
“Our new accreditation programme will support care homes in the provision of person centred care.”
Registered manager at Milton Lodge, Trudi Snee, said:
“Having this award has cemented what we do. The training for us to learn and develop what we already had in place and to act on it, has been amazing.
“I look forward to us to continue to do this work and to be able to offer the end of life care to our residents.”
The Hospice Education accredited certification shows clients, families and professionals that care homes and care agencies have undertaken quality training from experts in palliative and end of life care.
To achieve accreditation several requirements must be met and the care home must have a Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of good or above.
Visit sthelena.org.uk/education for more information.
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Hospice Education is a partnership between St Helena Hospice and St Elizabeth Hospice offering local health and social care professionals specialist training and education in end of life and palliative care through a range of courses.
The Hospice Education accredited certification for care homes is facilitated and awarded by St Helena in north east Essex and by St Elizabeth Hospice in Suffolk.
Photocaption: St Helena Hospice has awarded an accreditation certificate to Milton Lodge for its good professional standards of end of life care
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.
The emphasis for this charity is about quality of life and services include the Hospice, Hospice in the Home, bereavement support, virtual ward, and SinglePoint 24/7 advice line and rapid response.
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 is raised through the local community giving donations; buying in St Helena shops; playing Your Hospice Lottery; and leaving gifts in Wills. Vital funds for St Helena are also raised through supporting its commercial and social enterprise activities.
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