{"id":141974,"date":"2025-09-16T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141974\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:02:12","slug":"alan-titchmarsh-unveils-mountbatten-frances-sheldon-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141974\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Titchmarsh unveils Mountbatten Frances Sheldon Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Mountbatten&#8217;s hospice in West End, Southampton, hosted a ceremony to commemorate the renaming of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/education\/education_news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">education<\/a> and outpatient service building to the Frances Sheldon Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In addition to hospice staff, CEO Nigel Harvey and patron Alan Titchmarsh, there were members of Frances Sheldon&#8217;s family, some of whom even travelled from France for the occasion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Alan Titchmarsh unveiled a plaque to Frances Sheldon(Image: Cristiano Magaglio)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25332618.mountbatten-receive-almost-1m-government-funds\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hampshire hospice to receive nearly \u00a31 million in government funding<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Frances was a pioneer in the field of psychological palliative care. Appointed as the first social worker at Countess Mountbatten House in 1977, she helped develop the role in end-of-life care.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From 1986 to 1991, she worked for the hospice&#8217;s education team, and she was a senior lecturer at Southampton University until 2002.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Frances Sheldon(Image: Mountbatten)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She died on February 26, 2004, at Mountbatten Hampshire&#8217;s inpatient unit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alan Titchmarsh recalled interviewing her for the BBC as he unveiled a plaque in her honour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25051478.southampton-hospice-mountbatten-announces-new-patron\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Southampton hospice Mountbatten announces new patron<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Outside the centre(Image: Cristiano Magaglio)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;She did so much. It is so easy to forget people who have made a big difference, and she did make a big difference in the area.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Frances&#8217; long-time partner, Keith Telford, said: &#8220;She would be very pleased.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;She was very rational and very warm. Just the sort of person that would go anywhere and pitch in.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Ben, Keith and Matthew(Image: Cristiano Magaglio)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Consultant of palliative medicine, Dr Carol Davis, worked with Frances. She said: &#8220;She was amazing. She had a way of making complex things simple and an absolute passion for care.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Among those in attendance were her sons, Ben and Matthew Sheldon. Ben called the event a &#8220;wonderful surprise&#8221;, though he admitted his mother would have likely found it to be embarrassing, but added they were very proud and very grateful.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Dr Carol Davis(Image: Cristiano Magaglio)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The renaming coincided with some recently finished refurbishment, including inside the adjacent inpatient unit, and next week&#8217;s departure of the CEO, Nigel Hartley.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;People come here and the atmosphere isn&#8217;t all doom and gloom, it is about life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I wanted to do this before I retire. I come from a psychological therapy background, and she was very influential to me throughout my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mountbatten&#8217;s hospice in West End, Southampton, hosted a ceremony to commemorate the renaming of its education and outpatient&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-141974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}