At the end of life we want all patients with cancer to experience the best possible care, with the choice of being cared for in their own home.
Our values
At Marie Curie Cancer Care, we will:
- put patients first
- champion new ways to help cancer patients
- listen to our staff and volunteers
- share what we know about caring for cancer patients.
Our passions
We are passionate about providing the best possible care and support for cancer patients and their families. We do this through our Marie Curie Nurses working in the community and our 10 hospices.
We are passionate about ensuring patients have choice of their place of care at the end of their life. Research shows most cancer patients would like to be at home at the end of life, surrounded by friends, family, familiar objects and perhaps pets. A sizeable minority would like to be cared for in a hospice. However, more than half of all cancer deaths still occur in hospital – the place patients least want to be.
Marie Curie Cancer Care has been campaigning for three years to ensure more cancer patients – and those with other life-limiting illnesses – can make the choice to be cared for in the place of their choice at the end of life.
We’re also passionate about research, with world-class teams of doctors and other healthcare professionals investigating better ways to provide palliative care for patients and scientists at the Marie Curie Research Institute looking at the causes and treatments of cancer.
