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 45 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.
People with motor neurone disease (MND) in Swindon will continue to receive dedicated, compassionate support thanks to a four-year funding commitment from the MND Association, delivered in partnership with Prospect Hospice.
The funding supports a dedicated MND Care Co-ordinator role, which provides people with MND and their families with a consistent, trusted point of contact to help them navigate a rapidly changing and complex condition.
MND Care Co-ordinators work alongside individuals and their families to understand what matters most to them and brings professionals and services together, so people get the right support, where and when they need it.
In Swindon, the role is delivered in partnership with Prospect Hospice and is held by Dorinda Moffatt. Working closely with people affected by MND, their carers and a wide range of professionals across the community, Dorinda helps people access support closer to home and enables earlier engagement with hospice services, improving understanding of the holistic care available and supporting timely planning. With support from an assistant, Dorinda also helps ensure continuity of support, even as circumstances change.
She said: “I’m extremely proud to be working with the MND Association. Both organisations share a deep commitment to putting patients and families at the heart of everything we do, and that shared purpose makes this partnership special.
“I have the privilege of supporting patients, families and carers as they face an incredibly challenging diagnosis. Being able to be a voice for people when the disease can take away their ability to speak for themselves is one of the most important parts of my role.
“I’m so grateful to be trusted with this, and to be able to continue ensuring their experiences are heard and their needs are met and understood.”
Sally Hughes, Director of Services and Partnerships at the MND Association, said: “Our MND Care Co-ordinator roles, which are funded by the MND Association and delivered through local partners, provide wraparound support for people living with this devastating disease, offering a trusted point of contact for individuals and families as their needs change.”
Through its national MND co-ordinator programme, the MND Association funds dedicated roles across the UK to improve co-ordination, equity of access and the experience of care for people affected by MND.
Prospect Hospice is a charity providing palliative and end of life care, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, the hospice provides all services free of charge thanks to the generosity of the community, which raises 84% of the £10.6 million needed each year.
Care is tailored to each individual and delivered in a variety of ways. Specialist teams provide clinical, emotional and practical support at the hospice in Wroughton, in people’s homes and across the community.
Founded in 1980, the hospice serves a population of more than 330,000 people in Swindon and north-east Wiltshire, including Royal Wootton Bassett, Marlborough and Pewsey, as well as Lechlade and Fairford in Gloucestershire.
Prospect Hospice Communications Team.
Tel: 01793 813355
Email: communications@prospect-hospice.net
Website: prospect-hospice.net
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Every day we’re here for people affected by Motor Neurone Disease. A diagnosis of MND brings home the preciousness of every day. So we do all we can to make every day count.
We bring understanding and guidance. We deliver practical and financial support. We raise awareness and campaign for better care. We’re not just here for now – as the UK’s leading charity funder of MND research, we’re striving for breakthroughs to develop new treatments and, ultimately, a cure.
MND moves fast. It takes away time, it takes away independence and it has no cure. Every piece of support, every research project, every pound raised, every kind word, and every day lived well, matters.
Motor neurone disease (MND) is a fatal, rapidly progressing neurological disease. Today six people will be diagnosed with MND, and six people will die from the disease. There is no cure.
MND attacks and damages the nerves which take messages to the muscles. Within months a person may lose their voice, their movement and, ultimately, their ability to breathe. Some people experience changes in thinking and behaviour. MND doesn’t affect sight, hearing or touch.
A third of people die within a year of diagnosis, and more than half within two years. It affects people from all backgrounds, of all ages although MND is more prevalent in men, and a person’s risk increases as they get older.
More than 5,000 people in the UK are living with MND at any one time.
MND Association Communications Team.
Tel: 01604 611897
Email: communications@mndassociation.org
Website: mndassociation.org
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