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.
We’re currently supporting a patient on our In-Patient Unit who was diagnosed with lung cancer some time ago, but who separately to her diagnosis, suffered a stroke at home earlier this month, which left her unable to either walk or talk. As she was already being supported through our community-based clinical nurse specialist (CNS) team, CNS Jaqui visited Jan and her husband Andy at their home, and Jan was admitted to our Unit to help her recuperate.
One of the things that we have sought to do to help Jan is to offer her support through our Therapy team, whose aim is to help patients live as independently as possible through the challenges they face following the diagnosis of a life-limiting illness. Physiotherapist Dorinda and therapy assistant Sally have been helping Jan with twice-daily sessions since admission that have seen her take first steps using a walker. “There is a time immediately after a stroke which is the maximum opportunity to make a significant difference in their recovery,” explains Dorinda. “We have been so glad that Jan was admitted as soon as she was because it meant that we could put into practice with her some of the techniques that will help her in her recovery. She was a very active person before she was diagnosed and she has incredible drive and determination, and works really hard, and that makes things easier for us and clearly helps her recovery. We will continue to offer all the support that we can, through the whole team here, to help her to continue to make progress.”
Jan’s husband Andy has been very pleased with the support that Dorinda and the whole team at Prospect Hospice have made for Jan and for him too. “We both feel very appreciative of everything that people have done for us here,” he says. “It really feels as though people feel they can’t do enough for us. They are all very keen to see Jan get better.”
We’ll continue to help Jan and Andy throughout Jan’s stay with us – and her verdict on the care that she’s receiving from us is expressed in one simple word: “Brilliant!,” she says.
01 May 2017