Our Purpose

To achieve and to maintain the values that are the essence of care and strive to:

• Affirm the patient as a unique and valued individual.
• Preserve the quality of life, dignity and independence of the patient.
• Provide an environment where the patient’s family and friends support and help them cope during the patient’s illness and during their bereavement.
• Affirm life and regard death as a normal process and neither hasten nor postpone death.
• Provide relief from pain and other distressing symptoms.
• Meet the physiological, social and spiritual needs of patients and their caregivers through a holistic approach.
• Enable the spiritual needs of patients and their relatives to be met in accordance with their human beliefs and wishes linking, where appropriate, with their own or hospice chaplain.
• Allow patients and their families the choice, whenever practical, to die at a place of their choosing, whether at home, in a hospital or in a nursing care facility.
• Work as a multidisciplinary team to achieve our values and beliefs for the ultimate benefit of our patients.
• Educate and train our staff and encourage personal and professional development.
• Acknowledge the need for staff support, avoiding undue stress through inappropriate demands on our team without realistic support.
• Advance the understanding and rational treatment of progressive disease through participation in appropriate research.
• Maintain high standards of care and seek to enhance these through evaluation and implementation.
• Respect and work with all other disciplines and agencies, encouraging through education and good communication a wider knowledge base of palliative care.