What is Wellbeing?

Your wellbeing is important for everyone at any stage of life. When a patient in our community visits Primrose Hospice for the first time we assess their needs and ask them what would be beneficial for them

One of the vital support services we offer are our wellbeing sessions. These sessions can consist of everything from yoga & tai chi to hair & beauty treatments. Patients can share time together, forming new friendships and learning new skills

Tammy Humphries joined us in January as our new Wellbeing Co-ordinator and has hit the ground running since! Find out a bit more about her below…

Hi! I'm Tammy, I previously worked at a care home organising activities and outings for the residents as well as fundraising events.

I’m passionate about improving the understanding around wellbeing and how it can have a positive effect on someone’s life. Our sessions work to improve our patients' confidence, comfort, health and happiness It could be by having a sense of purpose, managing their symptoms, setting goals and working towards achieving them.

Wellbeing helps to & create strong so networks, find pea and maintain a h quality of life. The all things that can us in our daily task help us to underst ourselves better.

At the moment we offer a variety of wellbeing sessions including; therapeutic singing, crafts, art therapy, yoga, tai chi, MEN’s & GALS groups We have plans to extend these sessions to include things like historical talks, technology demonstrations and different exercise classes. We would also like to take our patients out for visits to local attractions and community hubs which will help them to further build relationships with other patients ”

This is what therapeu singing group leade Ruth says when encouraging patien to come along! Our new singing group, welcomes patients nd carers to come ogether to sing familiar and new songs awn White - Head of Clinical and Wellbeing Services

The impact this session has on people who are suffering ith mild dementia is breath-taking. They enter the ospice finding it difficult to speak in a sentence but sing ong knowing all the words to the songs."

£1.95m

£39 Could pay for an initial nursing assessment

Is how much it costs each year to fund our services, with only 14% being received via statutory routes