Phyllis Tuckwell has welcomed patients to its first Living Well session at your new Hospice in Farnham.
Nurses, rehabilitation assistants and volunteers greeted patients in the Hospice’s light and spacious Wellbeing Centre, which opens out onto an accessible garden area with raised flower beds so that patients can smell and touch the plants. Sessions will cover a different topic each week, helping patients to understand their illness, manage symptoms such as breathlessness, anxiety and nausea, engage in activities which are important to them, and live life as fully and independently as possible. Whilst your new Hospice was being built, Phyllis Tuckwell held these sessions at the Beacon Centre in Guildford, but now the Hospice is open they will run at both sites.
The new Hospice opened its doors earlier this month, when patients were welcomed onto its In-Patient Unit (IPU) for symptom management and end of life care. The IPU actually only provides 15% of Phyllis Tuckwell’s care; the other 85% is given by its Hospice at Home team who visit patients at home across West Surrey and North East Hampshire, and its Living Well team who support patients earlier in their illness.
“It was wonderful to hold our first session at the new Hospice, and we could see how impressed our patients were with the Wellbeing Centre,” said Rachel Copes, Living Well sister at Phyllis Tuckwell. “These sessions are so important in supporting patients earlier in their illness, and the Wellbeing Centre is perfectly designed for them.”
To find out more about your new Hospice, please visit www.pth.org.uk/about/where-to-find-us/our-sites
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