At Prospect Hospice, we provide outstanding, personalised and compassionate care for everyone in Swindon, Marlborough and the surrounding areas affected by a life-limiting illness, completely free of charge. For more than 40 years, we’ve been a dedicated, non-hospital, end-of-life care service for patients and their loved ones - around the clock, every day of the year. Our mission is to ensure that anyone can access the best possible expert care whenever and wherever they need it – whether at the hospice or in their own home. As a charity, we only exist because of the generosity and support of our amazing local community.
Find out about the range of end-of-life care services that we offer to patients and their families. These delivered free of charge and are designed to provide compassionate, personalised support during every stage of a life-limiting illness in every kind of care setting, to anyone who needs it.
We couldn’t do what we do without considerable support from our local community. Find out all the different ways in which you can support Prospect Hospice, including fundraising, volunteering and purchasing from our shops. All contributions are greatly appreciated and enables us to deliver care that is free of charge to our patients and their families.
Our café sits at the heart of our hospice in Wroughton and serves a range of delicious home cooked meals to suit all tastes. Whether you're looking to catch up with friends over lunch or relax with coffee and cake, our Heart of the Hospice café has you covered.
Whether shopping with us in person or online, or donating your pre-loved goods, we thank you for supporting us through our shops where you help to raise around £2million a year for Prospect Hospice.
We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and we're always looking for outstanding people to join our team at the hospice across all areas of the charity.
Prospect Hospice is the leading provider of education and training for end-of-life care in Swindon and north Wiltshire. Working closely with you, our colleagues within partner organisations, we want to ensure that the very best care is available to everyone facing the end of life. This is why we provide education and development opportunities, all of which aim to encourage learning and build confidence in end of life care and support.
What it is, and how we can support you
We understand that being at home can bring real challenges for patients, families and carers to overcome.
Prospect’s specialist care, helps people to cope better by building their confidence and reducing their anxiety through a range of advice, information and emotional and practical support. We can also help by working alongside your doctor, community nurses and others to provide coordinated care.
Our Care at Home is available to anyone with an advanced, progressive illness, who wishes to be cared for at home, Please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Things our Care at Home team need to know and access:
At Prospect Hospice, we believe that patients should have a say in the care that they receive, including where they are when they receive it. Prospect@Home is a service that helps people who are living with a life-limiting condition to be in the place they most want to be as they approach the end of their lives.
We know that, for many people, staying in their own home is what matters most during their illness and at the very end of their lives, surrounded by the people they love, in familiar, comfortable surroundings. We also understand that being at home can bring real challenges for patients, families and carers to overcome.
Prospect@Home is a service which has supported hundreds of local people since it was first launched back in 2008, following a community appeal to raise £1 million. It has become hugely valued by patients and families whose wish is to be at home when they need our support in the final weeks and days of life.
Our Prospect@Home service helps people to cope better by building their confidence and reducing anxiety through a range of advice, information and emotional and practical support. Prospect@Home provides hands-on care in the home, night and day. Our team of nurses, nursing assistants and specially-trained home support volunteers work alongside the patient’s doctor, community nurses and others involved in a patient’s care to provide coordinated care, designed and delivered to meet the wishes of patients whose greatest wish is to be at home.
Please click on the Donate button at the top of this page to help us to reach more people, now and in the future, through our Prospect@Home service.
The Prospect@Home team offers:
When a member of our team visits your home, it would be helpful if:
Prospect Hospice are members of the National Association for Hospice at Home (NAHH). Please click here to find out more.
The service and care my husband received in his final days and hours were excellent and beyond what we expected. We couldn't have wished for more. Also the treatment and care received was outstanding.
I could not have managed without this service.
Wonderful, kind, generous and compassionate people.
Gentle people, knowledgeable helped me feel cared for.
Lovely , caring people, understanding of your distress and your loved one’s discomfort, even when they cannot speak.
If you’re a patient, family member or from the local healthcare community, and you need fast advice, please call the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) team on 01793 816124 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm).
If you need to speak to an expert outside of these hours, call 01793 816109 to access our 24 hour advice line.
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