Just a year after a fundraising appeal was launched for its hefty conversion costs, Prospect Hospice’s Outreach Centre at Savernake Hospital is ready to open. Hospice directors have praised the ‘incredible generosity of the people of the Marlborough area’ for enabling this transformation to happen so quickly.
Working with Great Western Hospital (which owns Savernake Hospital), Prospect staff have overseen the refurbishment and re-design of the hospital’s Lavington Suite. When Marlborough News Online visited the new centre last week the builders were beginning to clear up – ready for the carpets to go down.
The new centre will provide services including physiotherapy, day services, occupational therapy, counselling, complementary therapies and bereavement support for people living in Marlborough and the surrounding villages.
The new Outreach Centre will also provide a base for the hospice’s community nurse specialist service which supports patients in their own homes. And through its education service, they will also work toward the professional development of local health and social care workers involved in end-of-life care.
Maria Moxham, Prospect Hospice’s director of resources, is delighted with the centre’s design and facilities: “Once we open our doors I am very confident that patients and their families will look to us to provide the support they have sought from us in the past, but in a fresh and newly-refurbished facility at a much-cherished local hospital.”
Prospect Hospice has supported patients in the area for many years, and the decision to open the new Outreach Centre recognised the growing concern that fewer than anticipated people living in Marlborough and the surrounding area were accessing the vital services the hospice had to offer from Wroughton.
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