Support team earn major care award
WE’RE thrilled to announce that St Ann’s won the End of Life Care Award at the 3rd Sector Care Awards 2024.
The national awards, which took place earlier this month in Birmingham, aim to uncover excellence, innovation and creativity in the voluntary care and support sector.
Our application focused on St Ann’s success in innovation by delivering the rehabilitative approach to palliative care.
The rehabilitative approach is all about focusing on our patients wishes and goals to help them achieve what is important to them.
For example, last year one of our patients wanted to make memories with her friends, as she knew she had limited time left with them.
The whole medical team of doctors, nurses and therapists worked with her to plan an evening with her friends that she would remember.
They decided on having a girly night in where her friends came to the hospice, with her room being adapted into a Saturday night space.
A bartender from The Griffin Pub in Heald Green came to the hospice and the patient and her friends took part in a cocktail-making class. With everyone working together, we created a night that the person thoroughly enjoyed and achieve that goal of making memories.
Myself and Gemma Peers, head of marketing and communications, attended the awards ceremony on behalf of our hospice.
The other shortlisted organisations for the End of Life Care Award were Nightingale Hammerson and Galanos House, Royal British Legion.
We were presented with the award by actress Sally Lindsay, who spoke highly on the hospice from her hometown of Manchester.
Emma Dixon, director of clinical services at St Ann’s, said: “I could not be prouder of the brilliant St Ann’s Hospice clinical team!
“This is such a welldeserved award and recognition for the incredible work that they do each and every day! Well done Team St Ann’s.”
We are so grateful to have been shortlisted and to have won this award, we’d like to say thank you to the 3rd Sector Care Awards for recognising our hospice.