Planning permission granted for new Marie Curie Hospice
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Marie Curie has been granted planning permission to build a new Marie Curie Hospice in Solihull. The site is off Marsh Lane, not far from the existing Warwick Road hospice. The new hospice will provide a vastly better environment in which to deliver care to more patients and families. In particular, there will be 24 single, en-suite in-patient bedrooms, as opposed to just three single rooms at the current hospice. As well as being able to care for more in-patients, there will be much improved facilities for outpatient and day care services. Modern facilities in the new hospice will allow Marie Curie to offer unrivalled care and support for terminally ill patients and their families in the area. We hope to open the doors of the new facility in early 2013 and we will be launching a public appeal for funds next year. In the meantime if you’d like to register your interest in the appeal or have any questions, please contact Noel Cramer at noel.cramer@mariecurie.org.uk. -ENDS- |
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Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of the UK’s largest charities. Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, it expects to provide care to around 29,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in its hospices this year and is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS.
Funding
Around 70 per cent of the charity’s income comes from the generous support of thousands of individuals, membership organisations and businesses, with the balance of our funds coming from the NHS.
Marie Curie Nurses
The charity is best known for its network of Marie Curie Nurses working in the community to provide end-of-life care, totally free for patients in their own homes.
Research
The charity has two centres for palliative care research, The Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit at University College London and The Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool.
It also funds seven fundamental scientific research groups which investigate the causes and treatments of cancer. This research was previously carried out at the Marie Curie Research Institute in Oxted, Surrey. The programmes are now located in universities around the country, and will receive funding from the charity until 2012.
Supporting the choice to die at home
Research shows around 65 per cent of people would like to die at home if they had a terminal illness, with a sizeable minority opting for hospice care. However, more than 50 per cent of cancer deaths still occur in hospital, the place people say they would least like to be. Since 2004 Marie Curie Cancer Care has been campaigning for more patients to be able to make the choice to be cared for and die at home.
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