The coronavirus is having a devastating impact around the world, so we want to assure you that at St Helena Hospice we are doing everything we can to protect your loved ones in our care right now.
However, as we face these uncertain and challenging times, we need your urgent support.
Please watch the short message below from our director of care, Jo Tonkin.
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We will do everything in our power to support our community in the coming days.
“We are facing a challenge more unfamiliar and frightening than anything I've ever witnessed. Every member of the healthcare team is adapting their role to cover any unmet need. We are all so proud of the job we do and I have faith that we will rise to meet this crisis with the courage and care that first brought us into healthcare.”
To prepare for the impending challenges, our services and the care we provide is adapting daily and we are doing everything we can to respond to this constantly changing situation effectively.
SinglePoint will become a central hub that will help co-ordinate end of life care across multiple services. We have moved staff over to these teams from other roles within St Helena and are retraining them to provide 24/7 advice and support over the phone, freeing up our nurses to quickly respond to patients in crisis with an emergency visit.
Our rapidly growing Virtual Ward can now care for eight patients at a time, with our healthcare assistants providing personal care to the patient and support for the family when a patient is in their last days of life – helping them remain at home if that is where they want to be.
And this is why we need urgently need your help.
We’re facing a devastating loss of income because of the impact of the coronavirus. We have shut our shops; postponed our events; and many of you who were planning on supporting us at work, at school, at home or just out and about, have had to put a hold on your fundraising.
As a charity, we need to raise around £2 million a year from our shops and fundraising combined and both of these will be significantly impacted for several months.
We have a duty to all those in our community who are at the end of life to care for them.
Please donate and support if you are able to.