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HOSPICE RE- VAMP MEETS NEEDS OF PATIENTS


St Peter and St James Hospice & Continuing Care Centre has benefitted from an interior re-vamp after interior design company HomeSmiths partnered with Shackletons to create a centre of wellbeing.


Based in Lewes, East Sussex, the hospice provides palliative care and required a scheme of works that would meet the needs of both existing patients and those who might use the centre in the future.


Through focus groups with hospice employees and patients, design proposals and mood boards were developed and eventually turned


SOCIAL CARE SHOULD BE FREE AT THE END OF LIFE


Social care for people who are likely to die within 12 months should be free, says a report by the Commons Health Committee.


The advice has come following a review of palliative and end of life care, which found “great variation in quality and practice across both acute and community settings”.


The Committee has “strongly recommended” that the government provides free social care at the end of life to ensure that no one dies in hospital for want of a social care package of support.


The Chair of the Committee, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, said: “There are unacceptable levels of variation in


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the care that people receive and this needs to be addressed so that high quality end of life care is available to everyone regardless of their age, medical condition or where they live.”


The report also proposed that a senior named person in each NHS Trust is given responsibility for monitoring how end of life care is being delivered within their organisation.


Round-the-clock access to specialist palliative care in acute and community settings was also called for, with an emphasis on making the expertise more equitably available to people with a non-cancer diagnosis, older people and those with dementia.


Responding to the report, George McNamara, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Alzheimer’s Society, said: “Dementia is all too often overlooked as being a terminal illness and, as a consequence, there are unacceptable failures to prepare and plan for end of life care. People with dementia are also being forced to pay a dementia tax of thousands of pounds for essential care, especially towards the end of their life.


“Many people with dementia die in hospital and are not given the choice or consulted about their care wishes. End of life care planning needs to be better. While we welcome the call for free social care, our health and social care system needs to be person- centred, not system focused.”


The Committee’s close look at the state of end of life care followed the independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway, chaired by Baroness Neuberger in 2013.


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into reality. Shackletons provided cosy sofas, armchairs, formal dining furniture and occasional furniture that would reflect the very tranquil and gentle nature of the facility.


Jacqui Smith, Director at HomeSmiths, commented: “Developing a design scheme


everyone would be happy with was a challenge; but due to our previous working relationship with Shackletons we knew they would understand the complexities and provide us with a considered solution that would meet the brief perfectly.”


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