Home from Home

As you may know, we are currently building your brand-new, state-of-the-art Hospice on our site in Farnham. Once finished, it will enable us to offer our specialist care to many more people in Surrey and Hampshire who need our help. It will include an 18-bed In-Patient Unit (IPU) for patients who need symptom management or are in their last days of life; a Living Well suite where support programmes, art therapy sessions and carers groups will be held; therapy suites where patients can learn techniques to manage symptoms such as breathlessness and anxiety; and private spaces for counselling sessions.

It will also act as a base for our community teams, whose specialist doctors, nurses, health care assistants and therapists visit patients at home, throughout their illness and in their last days. During the construction, we continue to provide all of our care from alternative locations, in Camberley, Guildford and Farnham, as well as in patients’ own homes and care homes across West Surrey and North-East Hampshire.

It’s so important that your new Hospice feels like home for our patients and their families, and it’s the little touches that will make it special. Fridges for our In-Patient Unit rooms, where favourite drinks and snacks can be stored for patients at the end of life; sofa beds so that relatives can stay overnight with their loved ones; and a TV and games for the family room, where relatives and friends can take some time out.

In this bespoke-designed building, each of our IPU rooms will open out onto its own individual private courtyard area, which will lead to the beautiful, fully accessible communal garden where patients and families can relax and enjoy being around nature. Our Living Well suite will also connect to this landscaped communal garden, via concertina doors which can be opened wide to really bring the outdoors in!

We can’t wait to welcome our patients and their loved ones into your amazing new Hospice early next year.