Slides used by Sarah Riches Deputy CEO at St Giles Hospice and Michelle Vodden, Holly Road Supportive Care Centre, at the Big Local ‘community health and wellbeing learning event', organised as part of the Local Trust programme of networking and learning events for Big Local residents. The event took place on Friday 28 October 2016.

2. Lottery funding available – can we build a hospice?
Discussions between St Giles & KHH
Visit to a care home – but the numbers don’t stack
up….

3.  1 in 5 have a limiting long term condition
 140 people are in the last year of life
 Less than 10% of carers access support, advice or information
 Dementia is set to treble
 People aged over 75 will increase by 50%
 Social isolation is an increasing threat to health and wellbeing
 The population is increasing

4. If we think a little differently about death, encourage
people to plan ahead, talk with others and offer
practical support to those facing end of life…….a
small change in attitude could make a big difference
to how we live.

5. ‘A population health approach to palliative care is
the most underdeveloped at this stage of palliative
care service development. Yet it is the approach
that has the most potential to enhance the quality of
life and wellbeing to the widest number of people in
sickness and in health, in dying and loss, and in all
caring experiences towards one another’

6.  A community confident about supporting each other with end of life care
 More joined up working between organisations
 Increased personal planning and awareness for end of life care
 Helping people remain at home at end of life
 Improved support for carers
 Increased uptake of services and support in a timely way
 Reduced social isolation
 Increased volunteering opportunities and capacity

8.  Information point on end of life care
 Signposting
 Bereavement Help Point
 Dementia Help Point
 Improved co-ordination and access
 Bereavement care
 Complementary Therapies
 Carer support & education
 Lymphoedema care
 Promoting partnerships
 Compassionate Employers
 Advance Care Planning

9.  People with terminal illness
 People with long term conditions
 The elderly
 People with dementia
 The unemployed
 People looking for volunteering opportunities
 The local health economy

10. Support from Commissioners, local GPs,
community nurses and PPGs:
‘I would propose that our PPG provides the utmost
support and assistance in championing this service
development’
‘It sounds a fabulous facility for Uttoxeter’
‘It sounds like, if you kick the ball in, everyone
will join in the game’

14.  Uttoxeter
 Uttoxeter is a boundary town
 Uttoxeter is rapidly growing and changing
 Uttoxeter takes time
 Everyone in Uttoxeter knows each other
 Hospice
 Public awareness of hospice is low
 There is stigma around hospice
 Hospices work in very different ways

15. Centre Enquiries

16. People
Some of our partners &
links

19.  3 year Sustainability Finance Plan outlined
◦ Trusts
◦ Corporates
◦ Paid for services
◦ Partner contribution
◦ ? Retail
 Increase local awareness
 Increase connections
 Share initiative and learning regionally and
nationally with relevant organisations – NANM,
Hospice UK, NCPC, Dying Matters