Local charity Phyllis Tuckwell has started welcoming patients, families and carers into your amazing new Hospice, which has been designed for comfort, dignity, and modern clinical excellence.
Phyllis Tuckwell provides expert end of life care, support and understanding to patients and families across West Surrey and North East Hampshire. The opening of this new Hospice marks the beginning of a transformative chapter in the way it provides this care, enabling it to increase the number of people it supports to 3,000 a year by 2040.
“This week we were delighted to welcome the first patients to the new Hospice In-Patient Unit,” said Sarah Church, chief executive at Phyllis Tuckwell. “While the Hospice was being constructed, we cared for inpatients at a temporary facility in Camberley, but now they have all moved to the new building.”
There are 18 inpatient rooms at the Hospice, all ensuite and with facilities for loved ones to stay overnight, as well as a comfortable family room so children and extended families can be close. Each inpatient room opens out onto its own courtyard garden area, with space for beds to be wheeled outside if patients so wish.
The Hospice also includes a wellbeing and rehabilitation centre, where its Living Well team will support people earlier in their illness, helping them to manage their symptoms and live life as fully and independently as possible. During the Hospice construction, Living Well sessions have been held solely at the Beacon Centre in Guildford, but in the coming weeks they will move to the Hospice too, and run at both sites. The wellbeing and rehabilitation centre also opens out onto gardens, enabling patients to benefit from connecting with nature. A welcoming café makes the Hospice a warm, friendly, sociable place, and multiple clinical and consulting rooms enable staff to provide outpatient care.
“We’re thrilled to announce that your new Hospice is now open!” said Sarah Church. “It will enable our compassionate teams to manage patients’ symptoms, ease their pain, support their emotional and practical needs, and make care easier to understand and navigate for them and their loved ones. We are here not only at the end of life, but earlier too, helping people to live as well as possible for as long as possible. As more people need our vital care, our ambition is to reach further, support earlier, and help more people get the care they need – and this new Hospice will enable us to do that.”
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 £30,000 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.
