LAST YEAR, WE SUPPORTED OVER 1,500
FAMILIES FACING HEARTBREAK
“Better than very good, it couldn’t be better. I have encountered nothing but pure human kindness”.
Patient on the ward at Forest Holme
1,769
19,484
THE COMMUNITY PALLIATIVE CARE TEAM HELPS OTHER TEAMS TO GIVE GOOD CARE EDUCATION IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE ROLE
APPROXIMATELY 80% OF PATIENTS HAVE CANCER AND 20% HAVE OTHER DIAGNOSES, FOR EXAMPLE: COPD or pulmonary fibrosis Heart failure, Kidney failure, Liver disease
Neurological conditions such as MND, MS, Huntington's disease Dementia
HOSPITAL
THE HOSPITAL PALLIATIVE CARE TEAM ARRANGED FOR THE TRANSFER OF 131 PATIENTS FROM POOLE HOSPITAL TO THE HOSPICE OVER THE LAST YEAR
Each year around 1,200 people die at Poole Hospital. The Hospital Palliative Care Team directly supports 700 of these patients and their families.
THE TEAM PROVIDES SPECIALIST SUPPORT TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT IN CARING FOR CRITICALLY UNWELL PATIENTS.
MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE
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30 PEOPLE LIVING WITH MND CURRENTLY UNDER THE CARE OF OUR MND ADVANCED HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONER
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“That session was wonderful, I feel you have put all the mixed up pieces of the jigsaw back into the right place.”
LAST YEAR, THE TEAM MADE; 60 COOLING SPRAYS
75 INHALERS
20 NEUROPATHY PACKS
20 AROMATHERAPY BLENDS
COUNSELLING
THERE ARE 500 REFERRALS TO THE COUNSELLING SERVICE PER YEAR.
THE TEAM PROVIDE 1,500 COUNSELLING OR PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY SESSIONS ANNUALLY
“I don’t know how I would have coped without all the services of the counselling team”
100% OF SERVICE USERS STATED THAT THEY WOULD RECOMMEND THE SERVICE TO FAMILY OR FRIENDS.
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
65 PEOPLE BENEFIT FROM LIVING WITH LOSS SESSIONS EACH YEAR
12 THERAPUTIC BEREAVEMENT GROUP SESSIONS TAKE PLACE EACH YEAR.
AN AVERAGE OF 9 PEOPLE ATTEND OUR BEREAVEMENT CAFE EACH WEEK.
OUR NEW SERVICE CALLED THE ‘BEREAVEMENT BEFRIENDERS’ WAS SET UP IN 2023 AND IS AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE WHO HAS BEEN UNDER THE CARE OF FOREST HOLME HOSPICE.
FUNDRAISERS HAVE WALKED OR RUN A COMBINED TOTAL OF 1,137 MILES IN MEMORY OF A LOVED ONE.
89 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENTS TOOK PLACE IN 2024, SUPPORTED BY OUR CHARITY TEAM
1,000 GLASS FLOWERS WERE HANDMADE IN CELEBRATION OF OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY
We need to raise over £19,000 every week. Our charity is over 30 years old.
Forest Holme Hospice Charity (registered charity number 1038021) is proud to support the life-enhancing work of Forest Holme Hospice, part of University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
