Victoria Bassett is currently trying to fundraise for the hospice, which provided her late husband Richard with end of life care after he was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer.<\/p>\n
“The care here was just phenomenal,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It’s no disrespect to the hospital, but Richard’s symptoms were managed so much more effectively here.<\/p>\n
“His pain was under control, he was much more at ease, and I was much more at ease.”<\/p>\n
She said she was “immensely grateful” because she believed the care offered by the hospice staff prolonged his life by an extra month.<\/p>\n
“We had our daughter’s fourth birthday party here and so Richard got to celebrate her and be with our family.<\/p>\n
“That is a memory which will stay with us forever and means so much,” she said.<\/p>\n
Queenscourt Hospice has since relaunched its Keep Queenscourt in Service campaign to raise the funds to keep the doors open.<\/p>\n
Previously, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “Hospices do incredible work to support people and families when they need it most and are facing incredibly tough pressures.<\/p>\n
“This government has made the biggest investment in hospices in a generation \u2013 \u00a3125m \u2013 to improve hospice facilities, freeing other funding for patient care, and has also committed \u00a380m for children’s and young people’s hospices over three years.”<\/p>\n
They added: “We will soon set out our plans to modernise and improve the palliative and end of life care sector, as we shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, with hospices playing a central role in delivering care closer to home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Bassett is currently trying to fundraise for the hospice, which provided her late husband Richard with end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525262","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=525262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}