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Cara Cooper

26 May 2020

On the frontline: “We’ve all been scared and overwhelmed, but we’re nurses”

Cara Cooper is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Trinity Hospice in Blackpool, currently working at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Here she tells ehospice about her experience caring fo...

Virtual

26 May 2020

Hospice care goes virtual in response to Covid-19

Hospices have increasingly been employing technology to provide care in innovative ways, something that Covid-19 has accelerated. Whether online consultations or bereavement suppor...

Fundraising

22 May 2020

The hospice sector’s most creative fundraisers

Covid-19 has led to huge losses in revenue for hospices who’ve had to cancel fundraising events, however they’ve been adapting to the crisis in increasingly creative ways. We r...

St Clare Hospice

22 May 2020

Hospices step up support for care homes amidst Covid-19 outbreak

St Clare Hospice in Essex and Wigan & Leigh Hospice in the north west have stepped up their support for local care homes, currently under pressure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes

21 May 2020

Hospice charity shop reopens to sell essential items to vulnerable customers

Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes has temporarily re-opened one of its charity shops to provide essential items to elderly, vulnerable and NHS customers.

Nasreen and family

21 May 2020

Finding comfort in hospice care and the Muslim faith

Nabeel Al-Azami and his family have been cared for by Saint Francis Hospice in Essex since he was diagnosed with a spinal cord tumour. His widow Nasreen reveals how the hospice has...