Hospice marks 32 years of care in Buckinghamshire

Thirty two years ago today Florence Nightingale Hospice welcomed its first patient to the In-Patient Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury.

Built thanks to the generosity of the local community, the Hospice has cared for and supported tens of thousands of local patients, and their families, over the years.

The Hospice opened with an In-Patient Unit and Day Hospice, and over the past thirty years has expanded, both in physical size and the number of services it provides, to meet the needs of a growing and aging population across Buckinghamshire.

Hospice care is now also delivered in the community, through Clinical Nurse Specialists and the FNH@Home service, supporting patients in their homes.  Additional services have been introduced to improve the patient’s quality of life such as Florrie’s Children’s Team, offering respite care to the families of children with life-limiting illnesses and the Lymphoedema Clinic.

Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity commits to fund £1,000,000 of hospice care in the local area every year and to mark this anniversary, is asking the local community to help fund one day of hospice care.

It costs £2,740 every single day to run services at the Hospice, and every donation will help patients and their families get the care and support they need at the most difficult of times.

Donate at www.facebook.com/donate/233070512200832 or www.fnhospice.org.uk/birthdaydonation