Monday 21 May 2012
3 October 2011
To coincide with this year’s World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (8 Oct) national health and social care charity Sue Ryder is highlighting the importance of supporting hospices in their vital role of caring for people living with complex care needs.
Charitable providers of hospice care such as Sue Ryder play a vital role in supporting people living with challenging conditions by delivering person-centred care services, where the personal needs of the patient are at the heart of any decision taken about their care.
Sue Ryder is using this event to encourage people to support the charity by taking on a fundraising challenge including for instance the spectacular Hadrian’s Wall trek, the Jurassic coast trek or the Great Wall of China trek and by supporting its 350 shops across the country to help raise the £20m it needs to continue to support the thousands of people it cares for every year.
Jean Piper, a long-standing supporter of Sue Ryder, commented: “The reason why I became involved with Sue Ryder is because my husband Clive was cared for at Wheatfields Hospice, one of the hospices run by Sue Ryder. When he came here, we didn’t realise how serious his conditions were, but within a week he died.
I knew Clive wanted to die at home and what the nurses at the hospice were able to do to make this happen, was simply incredible. They managed to arrange everything Clive needed to be able to move him back home in a matter of hours. Once at home Clive died within 12 hours. He knew finally he was at home”.
Paul Woodward, Chief Executive of Sue Ryder, commented:”In England about 470,000 people die each year. Of those 355,000 require palliative care to prevent and relieve suffering and help them to live as well as possible.*
At Sue Ryder we are working closely with commissioners, staff and people in our care to expand our services to support more people when they need it most. We are expanding our community-based services because we know, given the choice, most people would like to die at home.
Having a ‘good death’ is about much more than being free from pain. It includes aspects of control, autonomy and independence. Being able to choose where to die is vital to achieve this”.
Sue Ryder provides specialist palliative and end of life care in seven hospices and through community-based services across the UK. Each hospice provides a range of services including in-patient care, day therapy, out patient clinics, specialist advice and community support.
*Source: ‘Local preferences and place of death in regions within England 2010’, Aug 2011
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