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Issue 30
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| October 2021
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Ayrshire Hospice lead outreach education in Ayrshire and Arran
Play our Lottery
By Caroline Lyon, Senior Fundraiser
chances to win £10! Joining is easy and your support goes a long way to ensuring the continuation of the exceptional care we provide to our patients
By Kirsty Cornwall, Quality Improvement Facilitator
session giving a practical, hands on demonstration of how they would provide personal care for someone nearing the end of their life using a training mannequin. They shared their practical skills and how they used this as an opportunity to simultaneously assess the person's condition; looking for any signs of distress, pain, issues regarding skin integrity and oral health. This pilot has been a success and well received by the personal carers in North Ayrshire with all attendees finding the course extremely helpful and will now be rolled out to more care providers across Ayrshire to improve end-of-life care.
With more winners than ever before, there’s never been a better time to join the Ayrshire Hospice Lottery. For a £1 weekly subscription, each and every Friday you have the opportunity to win our top prize of £1,000 , our 2nd prize of £100 or there are also 70
Over the last 12 months, Ayrshire Hospice's Clinical Governance and Practice Development team has continued to connect with care providers across Ayrshire by piloting a training course for personal carers focusing on palliative and end of life care.
and their families. To join, visit www.
Ayrshire Hospice has worked with North Ayrshire personal carers for a number of years
delivering face-to-face training but due to the pandemic restrictions, the opportunity arose to
ayrshirehospice.org/ join-the-lottery or call 01292 288 488 . Players must be 16+.
deliver online palliative care training. Maria Wan and Mary McKinney, Respite and Response Senior Care assistants, hosted the virtual
Forget-Me-Not Appeal
By Kathryn Howell, Senior Fundraiser
Thank you to everyone who donated towards a steel Forget-Me-Not, lovingly hand crafted by Morrell’s-Forge Blacksmiths, as part of our first ever Forget-Me-Not appeal. We were delighted to host our beautiful
Sharing is Caring
Catching up with old faces
memory meadow during June at The Dick Institute in Kilmarnock after it had initially been postponed due to Covid-19 restrictions in 2020. We are very appreciative of the wonderful team at East Ayrshire Leisure for their outstanding support and the appeal has now raised just over £15,000 . We still have Forget-Me-Nots available if you’d like one. You can donate £25 to receive a steel ornament which can be collected from the fundraising office in Ayr or can be posted out to you which would incur a small postage charge. Please contact our team on 01292 288 488 or email donate@ayrshirehospice.org
By Miriam Godfrey, Charge Nurse
ensure we remain in contact with those who need us.
For Ayrshire Hospice's Day Services team it was fantastic to be able to welcome patients for a number of Afternoon Teas during the lovely warm summer weather.
Along with monthly activity packs, telephone and video calling, the Day
Spending some time with patients and their families in this setting has been thoroughly beneficial for them and staff, allowing both to reconnect with therapists and meet new people in similar positions as themselves.
Services team have adapted over the last 18 months to
Forget Me Not Display
Afternoon Tea
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