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st lukes

28 May 2020

Practical guide to managing difficult feelings during Covid-19

Jutta Maria Widlake, Head of Social Care at St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth, has drawn on her many years’ experience of listening to and supporting terminally ill patients and their...

St Havens garden

27 May 2020

Hospice opens up gardens to families in crisis

Little Havens children’s hospice in Essex is offering free use of its gardens to families experiencing an exceptional crisis during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Cara Cooper

26 May 2020

On the frontline: “We’ve all been scared and overwhelmed, but we’re nurses”

Cara Cooper is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Trinity Hospice in Blackpool, currently working at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Here she tells ehospice about her experience caring fo...

Virtual

26 May 2020

Hospice care goes virtual in response to Covid-19

Hospices have increasingly been employing technology to provide care in innovative ways, something that Covid-19 has accelerated. Whether online consultations or bereavement suppor...

St Clare Hospice

22 May 2020

Hospices step up support for care homes amidst Covid-19 outbreak

St Clare Hospice in Essex and Wigan & Leigh Hospice in the north west have stepped up their support for local care homes, currently under pressure due to the Covid-19 pandemic....

Fundraising

22 May 2020

The hospice sector’s most creative fundraisers

Covid-19 has led to huge losses in revenue for hospices who’ve had to cancel fundraising events, however they’ve been adapting to the crisis in increasingly creative ways. We r...