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How your fundraising makes a difference – St Ann's Hospice..

How your fundraising makes a difference

£5 will pay for a meal for one of our patients at the hospice. All our patients’ meals are prepared in the hospice by our cooks and kitchen staff. Patients are given a choice from the menu, but if they don’t fancy anything on there, we’ll speak to them and make something they’d like to eat. £20 enables us to provide a complementary therapy session for a patient or carer. At both our hospices and from the Neil Cliffe Centre we offer complementary therapies to patients and their carers. Complementary therapy aims to help people relax and feel at peace through sessions such as reiki, aromatherapy or massage. £25 could pay for an appointment for a patient with one of our hairdressers. It’s important for our patients to feel like themselves and look how they want to. Patients can visit our hairdresser onsite at the hospice and he’s experienced in looking after people who might be experiencing hair loss as part of their condition or treatment. £30 will pay for an hour’s bereavement session for a loved one with our Patient and Family Support Team. Our team will support our patients loved ones and can help with things like explaining what is happening to young children. We’re here for our patients families for as long as they need us. £50 will provide a patient with an hour of treatment with our lymphedema, physiotherapy or occupational therapy teams. These services aim to give patients the best quality of life and are bespoke to each patient’s needs. £100 will allow us to provide vital transport for patients to attend our services. Transport is in particular for our day therapy patients, meaning they can be picked up from their home by our friendly drivers accompanied by a nurse, and feel safe, secure and comfortable in getting to the hospice. £200 pays for a St Ann’s community team member to visit a patient in their home. Our community team work across Salford and Trafford, providing care in peoples own homes. This includes nursing care, emotional and practical support.   £300 enables a patient to attend one of our day therapy sessions to improve their quality of life. Our patients in day therapy will receive care from doctors and nurses, as well as having the chance to take part in arts and crafts activities, physiotherapy sessions and have a lovely three course meal. £450 will pay for an intensive course of 9 lymphoedema treatments for a patient, helping to manage swelling, improve quality of life and self-esteem. It costs £500 a day to care for one of our patients on our in-patient ward at the hospice. This includes the care they receive from our doctors and nurses, as well as from our other services such as physiotherapy, complementary therapy and support from social workers and chaplain. £1,000 will pay for our Hospice@Home team to visit 5 patients, supporting people who may prefer to be cared for at home £1,100 pays for us to provide all our services for one hour £2,500 will pay for 5 days of specialist palliative care for one of our inpatients and their loved ones. £3,600 will pay for a 12 week day therapy programme for one of our outpatients, providing care as well as companionship. £7,300 will pay for 365 complementary therapy sessions, helping patients and their carers to relax £20,000 is what our Fundraising Team needs to raise each day, to cover the costs of all of our services. That includes our day therapy, inpatient and outpatient services and our Hospice at Home team from our three sites in Little Hulton, Heald Green and at the Neil Cliffe Centre. https://www.sah.org.uk/]]>