Bury Hospice Information

Bury Hospice are The Best of Bury's Charity of the Year 2011

Our Care

Bury Hospice serves the people of the metropolitan borough of Bury: Prestwich, Whitefield, Radcliffe, Bury, Tottington and Ramsbottom.

Bury Hospice exists to provide specialised palliative care, helping patients and families facing terminal illness do so with dignity, independence, and free from pain. This care is provided both in the hospice for day patients, out patients and inpatients and is also in patients' own homes through our Hospice@Home service.

Much of the care provided to day and out patients is centred around helping patients come to terms with a terminal diagnosis, helping them to manage their symptoms and providing support, care and advice on spending what time they have left leading fulfilling and active lives. Inpatient and Hospice@Home care tends to be focussed on patients' final days and allows patients to spend precious time with their families around them whilst receiving specialised professional palliative care.

Other services provided include 24-hour professional advice, Consultant Out-Patient clinic, complementary therapies, counselling, medication checks, stress management and relaxation therapy sessions, home assessment visits, visitor support services, carer support, bereavement support and training and education.

"The care my Uncle John received at the Hospice was fantastic. The staff and volunteers do such a great job. It was very comforting for him to be so close to his family and friends, so they could come and visit him in his final days. The Hospice was very different to a hospital ward. He had his own room which was really nice and homely and the staff went out of their way to make him as comfortable as possible, nothing was too much trouble. My family still talks about how well he was cared for: it's often the little things that really count. For example, encouraging patients to get dressed every day and allowing visitors at any time. I don't think he would have received that level of care elsewhere." Gemma Atkinson

If you would like to find out more about Bury Hospice, the services it provides or you would like to know how to get a patient referred as a patient, please visit the Our Care section of the Hospice's website at www.buryhospice.org.uk or call us on 0161 725 9800 or email juliekilgallon@buryhospice.org.uk

How You Can Help

All care across the whole range of Bury Hospice services is provided completely free of charge. With only 16% of our annual funding coming from the NHS, the Hospice has gained a track record in securing the funds necessary to deliver all of these services. In order to do so and to maintain the excellent levels of service provided by Bury Hospice, the clinical staff are backed-up by a small dedicated team of fundraisers and volunteers who work with the people and businesses of Bury, through fundraising, hospice lottery and the hospice shops, to ensure that the money is there to keep the Hospice open!

• There are many ways in which you can help: -
• Taking part in a Hospice fundraising event
• Make a donation
• Take part in the Hospice's weekly Lottery
• Shop at and donate goods to the Bury Hospice Shops
• Become a Volunteer and donate your time
• Have one of our collecting boxes in your premises
• Nominate us as your charity of the year
• Become our friend on facebook to find out up to the minute information
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If you would like to find out more about how Bury Hospice is paid for and how you could help Bury Hospice, please visit the How you can help section of the Hospice's website at www.buryhospice.org.uk or call the fundraising office on 0161 797 1748 or email clairewarner@buryhospice.org.uk

Building A New Hospice For Bury

Bury Hospice is a highly-regarded and well-loved organisation. The care it provides is without exception of the highest standard and is utterly compassionate. However, its inpatient unit of 5 beds is currently the smallest inpatient unit in the United Kingdom. Whilst elsewhere in the borough there are other ad-hoc provisions (a part-time consultant sees Hospital-based patients and there is occasional use of beds in the local Community Hospital), Bury Hospice's beds represent the only inpatient beds dedicated to palliative care in the borough of Bury.

Physical constraints of the existing building can also make it difficult to admit patients who need specialist equipment such as large wheelchairs, and there have unfortunately been occasions when the hospice has not been able to admit a patient for in-patient care.

Further expansion on our existing Hospice site is not possible and therefore the Trustees have recognised that further development will require a move to a new building in a new location.

In response to the above needs, and to the inability to increase capacity on the existing site, Building a new Hospice for the people of Bury would enable Bury Hospice: -

1. To be able to provide the care and compassion currently offered by Bury Hospice to a larger number of people, with cancer and non-malignant diagnoses and in a more spacious and high-specification buildings set in a natural and landscaped setting.

2. To develop and diversify the range of services offered to meet the needs of all people affected by terminal illness, whether as patients themselves or as family members.

A Capital Appeal was launched in late 2010 to raise the £5 million needed to build equip and open a new Bigger Better Hospice for the people of Bury. If you would like to find out more about the new Hospice, please visit the website set up specifically for the new Hospice www.buildinganewhospiceforbury.org.uk

If you want to donate money to the new Hospice appeal, please visit the website, click on the Donate Now button and then choose from the different payment options below. If you want to find out more, please call us on 0161 763 1545 or email capitalappeal@buryhospice.org.uk

Main Contact Details

Hospice Address
Bury Hospice, Dumers Lane, Radcliffe M26 2QD

0161 725 9800

Fundraising Office Address
89 The Rock, Bury BL9 0NB

0161 797 1748

Claire Warner, Director of Fundraising

0161 797 1748
clairewarner@buryhospice.org.uk

Shop Addresses
89 The Rock, Bury BL9 0NB
70 Bridge Street, Ramsbottom BL0 9AG
7 Longfield Suite, Prestwich M25 1AY
24 Blackburn Street, Radcliffe M26 1NQ
Warehouse - Unit 13, Dale Industrial Estate, Radcliffe M26 1AD

Tel - 0161 725 8405

Registered charity number 1136843

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