A Step in the Right Direction T David’S Hospice Care Is Our Hospice at Home Service, but Spaces Are Proposed

Page 3 Page 7 Page 12 What Getting Our hospices we do active Est: 1979 The Review2015 The new in-patient centre: how it could look A step in the right direction t David’s Hospice Care is our Hospice at Home service, but spaces are proposed. also been working very closely with delighted to have received recognise that some patients need The land for the new facility Aneurin Bevan University Health Splanning consent for a new a short time in an in-patient hospice was very kindly gifted to St David’s Board to ensure that together we can 15 bedded in-patient hospice and a modern facility being proposed Hospice Care by Newport City deliver the very best palliative and end behind the current day hospice and is no less than they deserve. Council and construction is of life care for the whole community. chemotherapy outreach centre at The proposed new single-storey earmarked to start early 2016. Over the coming months we will Blackett Avenue, Newport. building would be linked to the current Funding of £3 million has been be developing an operational plan This development will replace the day hospice at Blackett Avenue by secured from Welsh Government to ensure the smooth delivery of existing St Anne’s 10-bed unit. a corridor. It will have 15 en-suite for the construction of the new build the service and also to ensure the St David’s Hospice Care’s aim is to bedrooms, with each room leading and we are extremely grateful to the success of the new hospice. ensure that patients and families have onto a terraced area overlooking Welsh Government and Newport City We hope to develop many new the choice as to where they receive a proposed garden to be used by Council for their continued support of volunteering opportunities and are their care. patients and visitors. The new facility our charity and to hospice care in the looking forward to working closely We are totally committed to will also benefit from a social hub/ local area. with the local community and our community care provision and community café, and 50 car parking St David’s Hospice Care has supporters. How your money is spent – page 15 st david's review 14-15.indd 1 18/09/2015 09:30:06 From our chairman never cease to be amazed how everyone involved in St David’s Hospcie Care rises to new challenges each year and still manages to maintain our mainstream services and support mechanisms. Last year, we consolidated the Irunning of the St. Anne’s Hospice and made considerable headway in preparing for the new larger modern hospice in Malpas. We also continued to run all our services at generally slightly higher figures than the previous year. I am extremely proud to be part of an organisation where its workforce and army of volunteers enable us to excel in all we do. Our lottery... By joining our lottery, you will Malgwyn Davies CStJ have a chance of winning one of Chairman 24 great prizes – every week! And although it’s still just £1 a week to you, to our patients, it’s a priceless gift. A welcome from You can play online – select how many numbers you would like to purchase at £1 each per week and the payment Emma Saysell frequency. You will be re- directed to our secure online there is a long road ahead We also remain immensely payment system. and much money to be grateful to the Welsh Government, Note: monthly payments raised to pay for the project the Aneurin Bevan University are adjusted to account for before we get to open the Health Board and Newport City when there are five weeks in the doors to this longed for Council for their continued and month. centre. unerring support. We are now in the No two days are ever the same Numbers 1 2 process of going out to at St David’s Hospice Care as Paid Monthly £4.34 £8.68 various funding bodies in the this snapshot annual review aims Paid Quarterly £13 £26 real highlight of the hope that we will be able to to show. Our staff are caring for Half Yearly £26 £52 past year was news raise the money needed to deliver patients every minute, of every Paid Annually £52 £104 that St David’s Hospice this hugely important project for hour, of every day, of every week, Care had been granted Newport. of every year, throughout our Your £1 will buy you a unique Aplanning permission to build an We remain completely community. lottery number to enter into our in-patient hospice on the ground committed to providing care in Everyone who raises funds for weekly draw, where you can be in to the rear of our superb day the community but we also realise us are magnificent and we simply with a chance of winning: centre in Newport. that people require inpatient could not offer the level of care • £1,500 first prize Gaining that permission is only hospice service as we have that we do without their unstinting • £500 second prize really the first stage of our journey offered at the excellent unit at St efforts throughout the year. • £250 third prize to realising our long-held dream Anne’s over the years So once more, I say thank you • £50 fourth prize of having a day and in-patient And of course none of what we to each and everyone from the • Plus 20 prizes of £10 hospice sharing a site. do, which is immensely valued by bottom of my heart. You must be 16 or older to take Now we have the very real our patients, their families, carers, part in the Lottery. prospect of being able to offer friend and relatives, could happen It is simple to join and no the same excellent level of care without the fantastic support scratching around searching for that our in patients have received we get from our board, staff, Emma Saysell tickets to check – we contact over very many years at St Anne’s volunteers, fundraisers, corporate you when you win! Hospice, here at Blackett Avenue, backers and supporters. They are Emma Saysell, MBE in Malpas. But let us be in doubt all truly remarkable. CEO/Director of Nursing St David’s Hospice Care Email: Get in touch Blackett Avenue [email protected] Newport NP20 6NH Twitter: @SDFHC Call: 01633 851051 We are also on Facebook Fax: 01633 851052 Registered Charity No: www.stdavidshospicecare.org 1010576 2 st david's review 14-15.indd 2 18/09/2015 09:30:11 This is Our people President what Sir Richard Hanbury- Tenison, KCVO we do Vice Presidents Dr G Anderson St David’s Hospice Care is committed to providing Mr J Capel bespoke, individual ‘free’ care Mr W Jenkyn-Jones for all our patients and their families. We work alongside Mr R Noble, OBE patients and hope to Professor WB Peeling CBE support them at the most Mrs G Goodacre difficult times of their lives. Our aim is to ensure patients have choice about the care Our Trustees they receive, where they receive it and ensure it’s Sir Simon Boyle, KVCO the most appropriate care for them and their family. Naturally the cost of providing such high levels of care (Vice Chairman) St David’s Hospice Care has been providing community- does have financial implications for the charity. With Mr Ian Burge based hospice care for people with cancer or other the addition of St Anne’s Hospice it will cost St David’s life-threatening illnesses, and their families, since 1979. Hospice Care approximately £7 million each year to Mrs Judith Child Care is provided to people living within Caerphilly, provide our services and we receive less than 20 per Mrs Penny Davies cent of this from the NHS. In order to raise much needed Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen and within certain Dr Chris Gaffney areas of South and Mid Powys. In June 2013 St David’s funds St David’s Hospice Care has 38 charity shops, a Hospice Care took over the management of St Anne’s weekly lottery, and organises many fundraising events Mr Michael Hine Hospice which means that, should the need arise; throughout the year. Dr John Holland patients can receive care in the in-patient hospice in Mr Dennis Jessop, OBE Newport. St David’s Hospice Care is indebted to the local community for their on-going support and is sincerely Malgwyn Davies CStJ The need for St David’s Hospice Care’s services grateful for any financial contributions towards the work (Chairman) of the Charity. continues to increase year on year and last year more Mr Jim Thompson than 3,200 patients and families were cared for by St David’s, more than 25 per cent of whom had a non- How we started Mrs Margaret Van de cancer diagnosis. Last year more than 60,000 hours Weyer (Treasurer) of care were provided by St David’s ‘Hospice at Home’ ‘There ought to be a place like St. Christopher’s Hospice service, enabling patients to remain in their own homes here in Gwent’ – Student Nurses, Symposium on the Mrs Pat White, MBE if that is their choice. More than 90 per cent of patients Care of Dying Patients, 1977. Lt Col David Evans In 1979, Heulwen Egerton, a nurse tutor at Newport’s who received Hospice at Home care were able to die at Dr Roy Lurvey, MBE home, or usual place of residence (UK average is 25 per Royal Gwent Hospital set up the Gwent Hospice cent).

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