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The aim of The Prince of Wales Hospice is to provide specialist palliative care. Specialist palliative care is the active total care offered to a patient with a progressive illness and to those close to them, when it is recognised that the illness is no longer curable. Specialist palliative care concentrates on quality of life and the alleviation of distressing psychological, spiritual, physical and social symptoms within the framework of a co-ordinated, inter-disciplinary service. In addition, specialist palliative care offers support in bereavement.
Its objectives are:
- To provide personalised specialist palliative care in a multidisciplinary and non-institutional environment that reflects patient needs controlling pain and other symptoms like nausea and sickness
- To provide specialist palliative care to patients irrespective of diagnosis, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion and/or ethnicity
Ways to support family members.
- To provide an extensive and flexible range of holistic services that respond to the needs of the patient and to those close to them
- To provide comprehensive information and support to enable patients and those close to them to make informed decisions
- To provide specialist palliative care by staff who have undertaken specialist training and who are supported in their work by a comprehensive educational and training programme
- To disseminate palliative care expertise, through education and training initiatives and to provide comprehensive advice and signposting to patients, families, carers and other heath care professionals; and
- To work closely and effectively with the primary and acute health sectors to ensure seamless and integrated care.
The following services are provided by The Prince of Wales Hospice to patients in residential care (Incare) and day therapy units:
- Pain and symptom controlTo provide specialist palliative care to patients irrespective of diagnosis, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion and/or ethnicity
- Rehabilitation, including occupational therapy
- Therapies, including physiotherapy and complementary therapies
- Spiritual support
- Supported self-help*
- Practical and financial advice
- Pre-bereavement and bereavement support; and
- Consultant led 24 hour telephone advice to families patients and professionals.
* Day therapy unit only.
The Prince of Wales Hospice also provides the following services to the families, carers and loved ones of patients:
- Complementary therapies
- Spiritual support
- Practical and financial advice
- Pre-bereavement and bereavement support
The Prince of Wales Hospice will arrange for patients to be transported to and from the Hospice in ways that best suit the needs of the patient, comfortably and safely.
As part of its range of services The Prince of Wales Hospice runs a clinic at the Hospice and at Wakefield Hospice to provide the specialist management of patients with primary and secondary lymphoedema. The specialist nurses who run this clinic have undertaken specialist training and are supported in their work by a comprehensive educational and training programme. They will provide Lymphoedema Clinic patients and their family and carers with comprehensive information and support to enable them to make informed decisions about their treatment.
The Prince of Wales Hospice is a limited company registered by guarantee under the name The Five Towns Plus Hospice Fund Limited (company number 1797810) and is a registered charity (number 514999). It is situated at Halfpenny Lane, Pontefract WF8 4BG.
The registered manager of The Prince of Wales Hospice is Mrs Julie Ferry, who can be contacted at The Prince of Wales Hospice, Halfpenny Lane, Pontefract WF8 4BG. Her telephone number is (01977 781468) and e-mail address is jferry@pwh.org.uk.
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allows us to help a patient put together a memory box for a loved one
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enables an expert nurse to deliver optimal care with comfort and dignity for one hour
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£32
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funds a home visit by a bereavement counsellor to help families through difficult times
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