Thames Hospice Care
Thames Hospicecare (THc) exists to help people live the best possible life they can right to the very end. We cannot cure the illness but we can and do help people live better and more fulfilling lives.All services are provided free and it is only through the generous and ongoing help from its supporters that it is able to continue to help local people in need of Hospice palliative care.
| Thames Hospicecare (THc) is an independent charity, which was established in 2005 as a result of a merger with Thames Valley Hospice in Windsor and The Paul Bevan Cancer Foundation in Ascot.Both organisations started in the early 80’s in response to the local need for a Hospice. Initially providing a home nursing service, the Windsor Hospice was opened by the Queen in 1987, with Ascot following in 1997.Thames Hospicecare is governed by a board of Trustees and run on a day-to-day basis by the Chief Executive, Jacqueline Clarke and the Senior Management Team. | |
| The Clinical Team will be shortly be led by a Palliative Care Consultant who will be responsible for delivering three main services, the In-Patient, Community and Out Patient Services. Although the majority of patients have cancer we are increasingly treating other life limiting illness such as Motor Neurone, MS, Parkinsons and renal failure. |
We have 17 in-patient beds and out patient services available from THc Windsor. THc Ascot provides Community Services including THc’s Hospice at Home nursing service. We care for approximately 1000 patients and families a year and work closely with other health providers, e.g. District Nurses, GPs, Consultants and other Specialists Palliative Care teams who may be involved in a patient’s care.
THc is situated in Windsor and Ascot and serves the local surrounding communities of East Berkshire and South Bucks. We have 120 full and part time staff and 490 volunteers working at the Hospices in Windsor and Ascot and in the 16 THc Shops.
| The map shows the areas where the majority of THc patients and supporters live. It records the number of patients over a five year period and is broken into the following: IPU (In-Patient Unit) at Windsor, DSU (Day Support Unit) in Ascot and H@H (Hospice at Home). It also shows the location of the THc shops and THc Fundraising Group, who all play a huge part in the day-to-day running of the Hospice.It costs £4m a year to run the Hospice. We receive approx 22% from the NHS towards our costs which means we rely heavily on the generosity of supporters, donors, and legators to help provide our services along with the efforts of our own income generation teams to raise the remaining 78%.We have a separate trading company which runs the THc shops based at Tinkers Lane, Dedworth and we are members of the Hospice Lottery Partnership. We have a Furniture Mart in Dedworth and 16 shops located in, Windsor, Uxbridge, Yiewsley, Crowthorne, Binfield. Woodley, Stainash, Sandhurst, North Ascot, Sunninghill, Maidenhead, Dedworth, Bracknell, Blackwater, Wokingham. |
List of events to sign up for us:
THc Santa Dash, 28th November 2010.
Contact 01753 848963 for more information
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