At Prospect Hospice, we provide outstanding, personalised and compassionate care for everyone in Swindon, Marlborough and the surrounding areas affected by a life-limiting illness, completely free of charge. For more than 40 years, we’ve been a dedicated, non-hospital, end-of-life care service for patients and their loved ones - around the clock, every day of the year. Our mission is to ensure that anyone can access the best possible expert care whenever and wherever they need it – whether at the hospice or in their own home. As a charity, we only exist because of the generosity and support of our amazing local community.
Find out about the range of end-of-life care services that we offer to patients and their families. These delivered free of charge and are designed to provide compassionate, personalised support during every stage of a life-limiting illness in every kind of care setting, to anyone who needs it.
We couldn’t do what we do without considerable support from our local community. Find out all the different ways in which you can support Prospect Hospice, including fundraising, volunteering and purchasing from our shops. All contributions are greatly appreciated and enables us to deliver care that is free of charge to our patients and their families.
Our café sits at the heart of our hospice in Wroughton and serves a range of delicious home cooked meals to suit all tastes. Whether you're looking to catch up with friends over lunch or relax with coffee and cake, our Heart of the Hospice café has you covered.
Whether shopping with us in person or online, or donating your pre-loved goods, we thank you for supporting us through our shops where you help to raise around £2million a year for Prospect Hospice.
We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and we're always looking for outstanding people to join our team at the hospice across all areas of the charity.
Prospect Hospice is the leading provider of education and training for end-of-life care in Swindon and north Wiltshire. Working closely with you, our colleagues within partner organisations, we want to ensure that the very best care is available to everyone facing the end of life. This is why we provide education and development opportunities, all of which aim to encourage learning and build confidence in end of life care and support.
At this time, we know many of you are having to have difficult conversations with your family about death and dying. As specialists in end of life care, these are conversations we have with our patients and their families on a regular basis and, while we know it’s never an easy thing to talk about, we do know how important it is to talk.
Now more than ever people are starting to engage in the sorts of conversations they may have avoided in the past and we want to offer some advice on this where we can in the hope it helps.
Please find below a short video from a colleague of ours, Dr Justin Amery, a specialist in palliative care who made this video while self-isolating with Coronavirus.
Before you watch, we want to let you know that this video does talk about what to expect when thinking about your own death and may be difficult to watch. The beauty of online videos though is that, if it is too much at this time, you can press pause and come back and pick it up at a later date.
We hope this video helps.
To view more videos in the series, including one on what to expect if you get Covid-19, click here.