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News
Major Teamwork Award for St Joseph’s
We have won another major national award! St. Joseph’s have been working closely with Social Action for Health (SAFH), a local community development charity, to develop better understanding of our work amongst our very diverse and changing population. In one of the projects, our clinical staff and SAFH have been working with the communities in Tower Hamlets, to discuss their religious and cultural needs and to explain the services we can offer. In March, this work was awarded the Multidisciplinary Teamwork Award at the prestigious International Journal of Palliative Nursing Awards ceremony.
Involvement to Impact Awards 2008
St Joseph’s Hospice has won a prestigious national award for their work on Diversity in Heart Failure and its Management at End of Life.
The project triumphed at the 2008 Involvement to Impact Awards, organized by the NHS Centre for Involvement, where it on the Specialist Services Category.
Jane Butler and Heather Richardson, Director of Care at St Joseph’s, from the winning project received the Award at a presentation ceremony held at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham on 25th November.
Making the Award to St Joseph’s Hospice, the judges said that they were particularly impressed with the sustainability of this project, which endeavored to ensure that people with heart failure living in Tower Hamlets have access to a comprehensive and local pathway of care, with a particular focus on care required at the end of a patient’s life.
The awards are organized and presented by the NHS Centre for Involvement, a national body committed to promoting Patient and Public Involvement in health and social care across the country.
Exciting building plans….
As outlined in the last newsletter, we have been busy creating two new innovative spaces here at St. Joseph's Hospice. The first project is called Finding Space and has been funded by a substantial Department of Health Grant. This new facility will enable many to come and find out more about end of life care services.
Finding Space
This project has enabled us to reflect on the changing needs and preferences of our population. We have become increasingly aware of the opportunities to develop care to reflect emerging requirements for information, advice and support which will enable people facing the end life, their families and carers to become familiar with service options available to them, negotiate the care that they require with more confidence and manage their condition more effectively themselves.
The project will enable additional self-management opportunities, including an information service, access to specialists for ad hoc consultations and support for carers. It will be available to anyone seeking such help, and will build links with schools other community groups and other information providers, enabling them to learn more about the work of the hospice and end of life care issues. Linked physically to the Education Department, it will draw together professional education in palliative care and enable wider conversations around death and dying with local people.
The project offers a contemporary, highly flexible and attractive space. Its specification has been developed in consultation with members of the local communities who have been asked to comment on its acceptability to them.
Education Department
The second project involves the development of the first and second floor of Heenan House at the Hospice. This will house the new education department. The new facility offers state of the art equipment and flexible space to suit all needs. It will offer more teaching rooms together with a larger library/ resource area and will be Wi Fi equipped throughout. This will enable us to offer more comprehensive programmes in end of life care to our own staff and also other local health professionals.
The completion of the formal building works is expected to take place in June, fitting out will take place over the coming weeks and both areas will be fully operational by late summer. |
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