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We provide Hospice palliative care across our Services, to enable you or your loved one to make choices that are right for them.
If you or someone you love needs Hospice care, please complete this short form and we will contact you. There is no need to wait for a referral from your GP or healthcare professional.
Our Services are free of charge to all patients and their loved ones. We need to raise over £8 million every year to provide outstanding Hospice care to the local community.
To get involved with our fundraising activities, design your own, or make a donation, use the information on this page.
At Cottage Hospice, you’ll be supported by trained workforce which includes nurses, volunteers and nursing assistants – they’re on hand if you have any questions or need any help. Help is available 24/7, but apart from checking in from time to time, you’ll be left in peace just like you would be at home. Care in the final weeks of life can be a completely new experience, but this doesn’t have to be daunting; it can be fulfilling and comforting for both yourself and the patient and advice and assistance is on offer all the time to best support you. Typically, family caregivers might ask for help with moving their loved one, managing symptoms and some personal care, though help is available for anything when needed.
A key piece of information at Cottage Hospice is the Informed Guide, there to empower the family caregivers looking after their loved ones in the final days of life. The Informed Guide can be accessed in all of the rooms as video clips and in a binder: it is written as pick up, put down materials for just when you need it.
The Informed Guide is there to relieve the pressure and stress and to better ‘inform’ families about what the end of life can bring to help balance that uncertainty and ease any worries. Family caregivers have said that the guide is easy to understand and provides valuable reassurance when caring for their loved one.
Members of the workforce are available all hours of the day and night to support family caregivers and patients at Cottage Hospice. You can also talk to our Counselling and Support Service.
You’ll be able to talk to someone at Cottage Hospice to find out more. It’s important to care for yourself, the family caregivers, both physically and mentally/emotionally and sometimes the way to do this is by taking a break and talking to someone about how you’re coping. Just ask the staff on duty to help you access this.