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Adapting through Covid-19 to maintain our person-centred care.
window visiting where extended family can visit at the window, however this was done one patient at a time in order to ensure there weren’t too many households mixing in our gardens. We’re able to relax visiting slightly when patients are approaching the end of their life. At this stage the two named visitors can choose to stay with us in the hospice and we’re able to offer one off visits for other loved ones to say goodbye. This has been difficult for patients,
families and staff but we know we need to do our best to keep everyone safe. We are passionate about delivering person-centred care and have tried where possible to tailor the care to each individual need. This has included visits from pets, trips to the beach for ice- cream, pandemic birthday celebrations, mother and daughter pamper sessions and anniversary high teas. We continue to support our day services patients despite
making the difficult decision to pause attendance to the building. The nursing team along with pastoral care support have been offering telephone support, advice and symptom management regularly. For some of our patients this has been the only regular contact they have received over the last six months. Our team have liaised with both community and hospital teams in order to ensure the patients and their families feel supported and receive the best care we
can offer whilst they are not physically in the building. We have also offered this service via a virtual face to face appointment. As we move forward into last part of 2020 I am confident the team will continue to adapt with every new piece of advice from the government on how to keep us all safe whilst delivering specialist palliative care of the highest standard
to patients and families of Ayrshire and Arran.
Stairhill Architecture tackle Three Peaks as part of year of fundraising.
Stairhill Architecture have been pulling out all the stops to support the hospice plus two of their other chosen charities, Cancer Research UK and MS Society Scotland. Their goal is to raise
Alistair Mair of Stairhill Architecture said “I felt it was important to mark our 30th year in business and wanted to help support charities that have a special meaning with our team.” To talk about becoming a corporate partner of the hospice please contact Ron on 01292 288488 or email fundraising@ ayrshirehospice.org .
£30,000 to be divided equally to each charity and they haven’t let the social distancing and lockdown restrictions stop them from fundraising in a fun and safe way. From sponsored head shaves to doing the Three Peaks Challenge, they’re on track to make a significant impact for our three fantastic causes.
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