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Who your money supports - St Peter & St James Hospice & Continuing Care Centre
About
Our mission as a registered charity is to provide specialist care, love and support for those living with progressive, life limiting illnesses from East and West Sussex.
We will endeavour to meet the needs of each patient, their family and friends.
We aim to encourage and enable all patients to live their lives to their full potential despite their illnesses.
Set in 28 acres of Sussex countryside, St Peter & St James has spectacular views across the South Downs. We encourage our patients and their loved ones to make the most of our grounds, which include landscaped gardens, a wheelchair friendly woodland walk and a summer house.
Fundraising
All of our Hospice services are free of charge to patients and their loved ones. We receive just 15% of our funding from the Government and have to raise over £1.3 million every year through fundraising. That's £3,600 every single day.
What is hospice or palliative care?
"You matter because you are you and you matter until the last moment of your life. We will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully but to live until you die."
Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern UK hospice movement
The hospice movement has earned admiration, endorsement and devoted support for its work with people who face the end of life - and with those who love them. Hospices have enriched the lives of well over 250,000 people in the last year alone. There are 220 adult hospices in the UK. (Source: Help The Hospices Directory 2006)
By controlling pain and other symptoms, hospice care, also known as palliative care, enables patients to achieve the best possible quality of life. Nearly half of all people admitted to a hospice return home again and the average length of stay is just 13 days. (Source: Hospice Information, 2007)
Hospice care:
- provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
- affirms life and regards dying as a normal process
- intends neither to hasten or postpone death
- integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care
- offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death
- offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient's illness and in their own bereavement
- uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling
- will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of an illness
- is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications Source: (World Health Organisation, 2002)
A common misunderstanding is that hospice care is available only to people with cancer. In fact hospices also care for patients in the end stages of other incurable illnesses such as neurological conditions including Motor Neurone Disease and Multi-System Atrophy, HIV and AIDS, and far-advanced organ failures.
Hospice care is free of charge to all patients and their families.
Our services
St Peter & St James offer two distinct areas of palliative care:
Hospice care incorporating:-
Continuing Care which is provided in the:-
What is the difference between the Hospice and the Continuing Care Centre?
- Care: Continuing Care patients tend to require high dependency care for a longer period of time than Hospice patients. Some Continuing Care patients may spend several years at St Peter & St James.
- Funding: All Hospice services (in-patient unit, Specialist Community Team, Day Hospice and Support Services) are free of charge to Hospice patients and their loved ones. These services are largely paid for through fundraising activity. Patients in the Continuing Care Centre may be eligible for all or part of their funding from Social Services or the Government depending on their individual circumstances, or may fund their own care.
St Peter & St James also offer the following Support Services to both Hospice and Continuing Care patients:-
- Respite care
- Counselling & bereavement services
- Physiotherapy
- Welfare
- Chaplaincy
- Befrienders Plus
- Carers' Support Group
- Catering & housekeeping
The Multi-disciplinary Team
Medical care is provided by experienced doctors under the leadership of Dr Steve Dyer, Consultant in Palliative Medicine. Our multi-disciplinary team also includes Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Counsellors, Physiotherapists, a Welfare team and aromatherapists.
Im sure you will agree St Peter & St James provide a fantastic service to the people of East & West Sussex, I thank you for anything you care to give!
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James Neeter
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