St Elizabeth Hospice & St Helena have partnered with St Nicholas Hospice Care as part of their joint Hospice Education initiative, which provides a planned and integrated approach to palliative and end-of- life education, learning and development for staff, volunteers and the local community.
Through Hospice Education, the hospices are collaborating to provide an extensive range of palliative and end-of-life education, training, learning and development sessions – both online and in person as part of a blended approach – available to healthcare professionals across North East Essex, Suffolk through to Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
Mandy Summons, Head of Hospice Education, said: “I am so pleased we have been able to achieve this unified ambition, which has been a vision we have had for a number of years. This collaboration demonstrates our commitment to in-house and outreach education for 2024/25 across Suffolk and North East Essex.
“We will continue to explore new joint working opportunities with various multi-professional agencies, expanding partnership learning and development activities to ensure learning opportunities are inclusive and accessible for all across Suffolk and North East Essex.”
Pippa Wilding, Head of Nursing and Quality at St Nicholas Hospice Care, said: “We at St Nicholas Hospice Care are very excited to join Hospice Education and be a part of a wider team to be the lead education provider for health and social professionals in palliative and end-of-life care across Suffolk, Thetford and North & East Essex.
“We will deliver palliative and end-of-life training to equip the people in West Suffolk and Thetford to be more confident caring for more people across our community.
“We will look forward to making plans and working together to support the ‘grow your own’ concept and have a culture that is pro-actively retaining good staff and developing them to take on more senior roles, where appropriate.”
To find out more information about Hospice Education email training@hospiceeducation.org.uk
or visit www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk/how-we-can-help/information-and-support/education/.
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About St Elizabeth Hospice
St Elizabeth Hospice improves life for people in East & 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
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.
For more information – https://sthelena.org.uk/home
About St Nicholas Hospice Care
St Nicholas Hospice Care is a local charity dedicated to ensuring no one in West Suffolk and Thetford faces dying, death, or grief alone.
We provide high-quality palliative care, emotional support, and practical help to patients, families, and friends. Support is available wherever it’s needed, whether at our Hospice in Bury St Edmunds or through our Community Team in people’s homes.
We also offer Nicky’s Way, a bereavement programme for children and young people, open to any child in our region, regardless of whether their loved one was under our care. More information on the Hospice is available from www.stnicholashospicecare.org.uk
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