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.
In recent months the teams behind two of our services have worked more closely to offer patients with increased care needs opportunities to benefit from a regular day’s support at the hospice.
Our Prospect@Home and Day Therapy Unit (DTU) teams are currently running a pilot scheme every Tuesday which works by having a Prospect@Home staff member working alongside the Day Therapy Team staff team. The Prospect@Home team member’s role is to support an individual patient who needs additional support to attend our Day Therapy session for a period of four weeks.
The model enables the Day Therapy team to have patients in the setting with greater needs who may not otherwise have been able to access the service. These greater needs can range from assistance with eating and drinking, to helping someone transfer with equipment, or supporting someone with cognitive impairments such as Dementia.
Through this collaborative working between the two teams, patients have the chance to come out of their home and experience a different environment, when they may otherwise have had hospice support at home: “Patients can feel like they have regained some independence and confidence in an environment where they feel secure and supported,” says Zoe O’Reilly, our Day Therapy Service lead. “It also provides some respite for their carers too, who are then able to choose to spend time at home or go out while the patient attends the Day Therapy Unit. Working alongside Prospect@Home has been invaluable for the patients we have supported through this model so far, and for the people closest to them too.”
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