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St Helena Hospice

30 April 2020

Hospice creates ‘wobble room’ to support mental wellbeing of frontline staff

St Helena Hospice in Essex are supporting the mental health of frontline staff during the Covid-19 pandemic with a designated ‘wobble room’, a private space staff can visit at ...

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29 April 2020

Hospice UK responds to Scottish Government funding for hospices

Hospice UK responds to the Scottish Government announcement on funding for hospices in Scotland

Dallas Pounds

29 April 2020

“Financial recovery will be just as challenging as Covid-19 crisis itself”

Dallas Pounds, Chief Executive of Royal Trinity Hospice in London, writes about how the hospice sector should begin to plan for recovery after the Covid-19 crisis.

Julie

28 April 2020

On the frontline: “Wearing a mask, families can’t see our smile”

Julie White is a Healthcare Assistant with the Hospice at Home team at Saint Francis Hospice in Essex. Here she tells ehospice how her day-to-day job has changed since the Covid-19...

Thames Hospice

27 April 2020

Hospice expands its services to support local care homes

Amid growing reports of the huge impact of the coronavirus on the care homes sector, the Chief Executive of Thames Hospice in Windsor has written to care homes offering them access...

Nightingale Hammerson

23 April 2020

Care homes and COVID-19: “Testing isn’t equally accessible around the UK”

Since the Covid-19 pandemic took hold the picture from within care homes has been slow to emerge. We spoke to a London care home about how they’ve adapted to the needs of their r...