Medicash Foundation, who support a variety of projects from community healthcare projects to international conservation efforts has very generously awarded a grant to St John’s Hospice for the third time! This means the Medicash Foundation have kindly granted a total of £19,545.
This particular grant of £6,845 has been awarded for Hospice at Home fuel costs to support St John’s work in patients’ homes. This grant is vital as it will be used to support the transport costs of our Community Nursing and Hospice at Home teams travelling to give palliative and end-of-life care to patients in their own homes 365 days a year, 7 days a week.
Maddy Bass, Director of Nursing and Quality said,
“Approximately 80% of patients prefer to die in their own homes, in familiar surroundings, with their loved ones. This means that the St John’s Community Teams are busier and busier each year. They travel from Grasmere to Garstang, Morecambe to Sedbergh in all weathers so you can imagine the impact of the fuel costs on a small charity like St John’s Hospice. To receive this grant means such a lot to the St John’s team and ultimately the patients and families we all care for, so a big ‘thank you’ to the Medicash Foundation for supporting this vital care.”
