Trinity Hospice--a hive of activity: established in 1891, Trinity Hospice is the oldest hospice in the UK. Located on Clapham Common, London, the hospice helps over 1,400 patients a year from a catchment area of southwest and central London, caring for people living with cancer--around 90 percent of patients--and other illnesses. The hospice has a particularly energetic attitude to palliative care.(Perspective)

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Cancer Nursing Practice
Date:
October 1, 2003
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Trinity's services are all encompassing and include specialist nursing, medical care, emotional and spiritual support, physiotherapy occupational and complementary therapy and practical social work support. The care Trinity provides is not time-limited. It is there for however long a person needs.

Furthermore, Trinity's care is free for everyone. Each year 4 million [pounds sterling] of the 6 million [pounds sterling] needed to maintain the hospice's essential services are raised from trusts, legacies and donations from members of the public. To help reach this target, Trinity's fundraising department runs ah energetic and varied programme of events and fundraising ...

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