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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£6.0M
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Spending
£5.9M
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from our purpose is the provision of a comprehensive Specialist Palliative Care Service to patients with Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease, Muscular Dystrophy and AIDS and other chronic neurological illnesses, who reside in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust area. This high quality care extends
beyond the Hospice into the community and the hospital services. Its aim is to enhance the quality of life of patients by responding to their physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual and social needs as well as supporting families and carers, thus enabling each person to live every day as fully as possible. Care is delivered by a Consultant-led team and includes symptom management, respite care and rehabilitation including physiotherapy, reflexology, social work and chaplaincy support and is provided in the Inpatient Unit which provides clinical care 24 hours per day; in the Day Therapy Centres; a community based Palliative Nurse Specialist supporting patients at home and in local care homes; by the Specialist Palliative Teams in the acute hospitals. Services are aimed at enabling patients to achieve their full potential once their symptoms have been managed as well as end of life care which enables patients to end their lives in peace and with dignity. Services are also available to pre-terminal patients, family and carers through our Donaldson Counselling Centre in St. Johns House and our Advice and Resource Centre in Dungannon, these services include counselling, complementary therapies, garment fitting and benefits advice, pre and post bereavement support. The Hospice service provides continuity of care between the hospital, community and hospice for terminally ill patients. The Hospice also shares knowledge and skills with other healthcare professionals by provision of training placements for both under and post graduate students and through in-house training sessions. All services provided to patients, families and carers are free of charge to the user. These benefits are demonstrated through patient feedback (In-house Patient surveys, Help the Hospice patient surveys, ongoing fund-raising for Hospice by patients and relatives; regular independent inspection of our services by the RQIA. Evaluation of our services by the Health and Social Care Board. Ongoing informal evaluation of our services by Healthcare professionals within the SHSCT. Letters of compliment and few complaints. Annual audit by PWC Ltd. Annual review by Insurance Company. The purposes of our charity may lead to the following harm, in providing medical treatment for patients with Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease Muscular Dystrophy and AIDS and other chronic neurological illnesses, there is a risk of unintended side effects from the drugs however this is rare and the benefit outweighs the harm. The charity’s beneficiaries are people who have been diagnosed with Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease Muscular Dystrophy and AIDS and other chronic neurological illnesses living in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust area. The charity’s beneficiaries also include family members and carers of those patients who are diagnosed Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease Muscular Dystrophy and AIDS and other chronic neurological illnesses living in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust area. A private benefit flowing from this purpose is the benefit to staff from payment of salaries for the work they do. A further benefit to staff and volunteers may arise from our programme of ongoing training. Through this training staff and volunteers gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries.
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The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include providing the best quality of life for patients and their families through the equitable delivery of specialist palliative care to patients and carers at any stage in a terminal illness. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include providing the best quality of life for patients
and their families through the equitable delivery of specialist palliative care to patients and carers at any stage in a terminal illness in the Community and Hospital Settings. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include providing the best quality of life for patients and their families through the equitable delivery of specialist palliative care to patients and carers at any stage in a terminal illness.
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- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Hiv/aids
- Mental health
- Older people
- Physical disabilities
- Volunteers
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Counselling/support
- Disability
- Education/training
- Medical/health/sickness
- Volunteer development
