Loros takes it services on the road
LOROS, the Leicestershire and Rutland hospice service, is taking to the road to offer help and information for adults with terminal illnesses and their families.
Loros Local is a new, mobile resource centre which will travel around the region to raise awareness about the organisation’s work and offer some services away from the Leicester-based hospice.
It will be in Hinckley for the first time on Tuesday, April 26, parked in the Market Place between 10am and 3.30pm.
Loros Local will allow people to access some non-clinical services including bereavement support, counselling and complementary therapy and will also enable nurses, doctors and members of the hospice education team to train other healthcare professionals in the visited areas.
Loros chief executive officer John Knight said: “We believe that people will find it helpful to have easier access to both some of our care services and information about the hospice.
“We also believe that by being more visible in local communities, and by telling more people about Loros that it will help us to raise more income in the future.”
The mobile centre was officially opened by Loros president Lady Gretton and Loros patient Gwyn Fraser from Newbold Verdon.
Mrs Fraser, who receives complementary therapy and attends bi-monthly drop-in sessions at the hospice, said: “It will mean that many other people will be able to get the support and pleasure that has been so beneficial to me over the past two years.”
The unit will be taken out into the community around three times a week, with more than 60 sites already identified.
To find out when Loros Local will be in your area visit loros.co.uk/ loroslocal
If you have a suitable site and would be willing to host a visit from Loros Local please email PaulMcChrystal@loros.co.uk