04: Denise Charity on Hospice at Home

Strathcarron’s Hospice at Home service celebrates double figures and is turning ten years old. Today, we chat to Denise Charity, the Lead Nurse for the service for the local Hospice charity providing specialist palliative and end of life care in the community. Denise shares her own personal story of why she chose to work in palliative care and provides us with an overview of the Hospice at Home service.

Strathcarron’s Hospice at Home service has been awarded the highest rating of ‘Grade 6’ and ‘Excellent’ across all evaluation parameters inspected by the Care Inspectorate for the last 5 inspections (2016-2023).

The specialist service was initially launched in 2014 with support from The Big Lottery Fund for five years. The grant ended on 31st July 2019.  As there has never been a funding commitment for Hospice at Home from the NHS, this service, that supports over 400 local people and their families each year, is mostly funded by the generosity of the local community who bake, run, jump, as well as donate and buy in Hospice charity shops to keep this vital Hospice service running.

Thank you Denise

 

For more information on the service, and if you have a professional referral: Hospice at Home | Strathcarron Hospice

 

For inspioration on how you could help support the hospice and fundraise for Strathcarron Hospice: Fundraising involvement | Strathcarron Hospice

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By sharing people stories, we help to raise awareness of Strathcarron's services and impact, as well as to reduce the fear of Hospices and encourage more conversations about death and dying.

Hosted by Ailsa (from Communications) and Ross (from IT) sees us out and about, speaking to our own staff, as well as people living with life limiting conditions and the families they support.

We're nurses, doctors, social workers. We're volunteers, cleaners, cooks & therapists. We're fundraisers, administrators, accountants & physiotherapists. We will share their stories.

We also aim to ask and answer your questions.

The conversations we’ll have with our teams will be around their roles, impact and how each person supports people with life limiting conditions. We will also speak to volunteers, local organisations, fundraisers, schools - a whole host of people connected to the Hospice too.

If you have any questions re hospice or palliative care, Strathcarron Hospice, or would like to be on the Podcast, or have a story to tell, please get in touch via our email Podcast@StrathcarronHospice.net.