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.
After five years, Prospect Hospice has taken the decision to move its services from the physical base at Savernake Hospital to enable it to deliver increased services across the whole of the community in Swindon and north east Wiltshire.
Carolyn Bell, director of patient services, said: “We have loved the opportunity to deliver our care from Savernake Hospital over the last five years, however as you might expect, patients’ needs are constantly changing and we need to ensure we adapt and change in order to meet these. Over the last year we have not been able to meet our patients face to face in a physical building to protect everyone from the spread of Covid-19. During this time our patients and those important to them have welcomed our care and support being delivered in their own homes, through virtual contact using video calling, or in their local community. This has been particularly beneficial for those patients who are extremely unwell and has demonstrated to the hospice that we needed to rethink how we deliver our services in the future.
“The move to a more community based delivery of our services means those in north east Wiltshire will receive a more enhanced, personalised service, tailored to their needs in the place that suits them closer to their homes. This new model of care will ensure that we can have a presence in many more communities, increasing our flexibility as our patients need us to.
“We would like to thank everyone that has supported us at Savernake Hospital over the last five years and we look forward to increasing our presence across all communities as our services develop over the coming months and beyond.”
No current Prospect Hospice patients will be affected by the move away from Savernake Hospital as all patients are receiving care in the way that they prefer at this time.
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