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ST David’s Hospice celebrated the reopening of a new drop-in therapy centre in Bangor last week.

BBC News By Rob Thomas image captionElla Baxendale said the help from the hospice allowed their family to enjoy her mother's later life Three Welsh hospices have warned they face having to cut services unless they receive a large increase in funding from their local health board. It costs about £14m a year to meet the running costs of St David's Hospice in Llandudno, Nightingale House Hospice in Wrexham and St Kentigern in St Asaph. They provide end-of-life and respite care to about 600 patients a year. Betsi Cadwaladr health board said it had provided above-inflation increases to the hospi...

HOSPICES in North Wales continue to receive less than half of the funding awarded to counterparts in the south of the country. St David’s Hospice in Llandudno, St Kentigern Hospice, St Asaph, and Wrexham-based Nightingale House Hospice are only given 16 per cent towards the cost of running their services every year. That leaves them to secure the other 84 per cent - which equates to millions of pounds – through public donations and fundraising. In comparison, hospices in South Wales collect between 30-40 per cent annually from their relevant health boards, as do those in England. ...

THE first ever hospice on Anglesey is set to open on St David’s Day. St David’s Hospice is now ready to welcome its first patient and families to its satellite unit at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley in Holyhead on March 1. Anglesey Hospice, a four-bed inpatient unit, which utilises a redundant ward of the community hospital, provides the local people of Anglesey, respite and end of life care for those living with life-limiting illnesses, as well as providing support for many of their loved ones. Penrhos Stanley Hospital St David’s Hospice chief executive Trystan Pritchard said: “T...