The number of local people needing us to help them through terminal illness and until the end of their lives, is at an all-time high. Yet given our ageing and growing population, and mounting pressures on NHS services, more and more people will need Phyllis Tuckwell in future. In fact, as many as 1 in every 3 local people will need Phyllis Tuckwell’s support at the end of their lives. To care for all those that need us, we have taken the ambitious decision to build a new Hospice.
Your purpose-built Hospice will be larger and better equipped than the building it will replace. It will have a specialist 18 bedded unit, to care for those with the most intensive medical and nursing needs. However, it will offer so much more. It will have a therapy suite and treatment rooms, an education suite, a café, a rehabilitation suite and counselling rooms. All wrapped by beautiful gardens to improve wellbeing.
From this state-of-the-art facility our clinicians will offer inpatient and outpatient services, free of charge - to everyone that needs them. From it we will support adults with cancer and other terminal and advanced illnesses. We shall also help local families and children through their grief and bereavement.
It will also house specialist community teams, who will support people to have the most dignified, peaceful and pain free deaths in their own homes.
This much needed facility will serve a community of over 500,000 people across Surrey and Hampshire, and each year thousands of local people will benefit.
You can see the progress of our build here.
All our services are free, but this is only possible due to the generosity of our amazing community. The Government/NHS only provide 25% of our costs, so we need to raise over £25,000 every day to provide our vital services.
Please donate what you can to help keep hospice care available to all those in our community who need us.
