Page 5 - Join Together News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Until March 2020, one of the benefits that many Prospect Hospice patients appreciated was the Day Therapy Service. Patients were offered a 16-week programme of activities twice a week at the hospice, which ranged from rehabilitation and physiotherapy to courses of how to manage symptoms such as stress, fatigue and breathlessness. It was also, says day therapy service lead Zoe O’Reilly, a chance for patients to have some social time with people facing similar challenges to the ones they faced. “The programmes we run are centred around the individual patient, understanding their goa...

It takes a special kind of person to be a Prospect Hospice nurse. Here Hayley Kenealy, a clinical nurse specialist with the charity, tells us what the role entails - and why she loves the job... "We normally see patients who are in the last year of their lives, so our work is palliative – that is relieving pain and discomfort – rather than curative. A clinical nurse specialist, or CNS, is a specialist in end of life care, rather than a generalist, and we work out in the community rather than at Prospect Hospice’s main building in Wroughton. We take referrals from GPs, district nurse...