Hospice care in Wales 2017 - English language version
Published on: 11 October 2017
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This short report is a starting point to understand where the hospice movement is in Wales, and also where it needs to go in the future to meet our communities’ changing needs.
Hospices in Wales both serve and rely on their local communities. Each independent hospice in Wales has been shaped by the people we see. Health and care in Wales is at a pivotal moment; flagship legislation on wellbeing and expected changes in our demographics make it timely that the hospice movement in Wales takes stock.
This short report is a starting point to understand where the hospice movement is in Wales, and also where it needs to go in the future to meet our communities’ changing needs. Hospices are innovating, developing new services and working in partnership with each other and statutory health and social care services for the benefit of people who need expert palliative and end of life care. It is right that we celebrate this.
However, we must not be complacent – we must continue to strive to better understand the communities we serve, adapt our services and widen our reach to ensure that every person who could benefit from expert palliative care has access to it.
Trystan Pritchard, Chair of Hospices Cymru and Chief Executive of St David’s Hospice
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to our member hospices in Wales for their support and provision of data on which this report is based:
Bracken Trust
City Hospice
Hospice at Home Gwynedd and Anglesey
Hospice of the Valleys
Marie Curie Hospice, Cardiff and the Vale
Nightingale House Hospice
Paul Sartori Foundation
Severn Hospice
Shalom House
St David’s Hospice
St David’s Hospice Care
St Kentigern Hospice
Ty Gobaith/Hope House Children’s Hospices
Ty Hafan
Ty Olwen Trust
Written by Catrin Edwards, Kathleen Caper and Eilidh Macdonald at Hospice UK.
