Our Charity Partnership
Improving Healthcare in the Community
Supporting end of life care services in local communities nationwide
Ashley House and Marie Curie Cancer Care have launched a Corporate Charity Partnership. One of Marie Curie’s objectives is to improve referrals from GPs and Ashley House are in a great position to help them work with our GPs and NHS clients. Additionally the partnership aims to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care through a programme of company led and staff fund raising events.
Whilst the charity has contracts with 96% of health trusts across the UK recent research shows that many people don’t know if there is a Marie Curie Nursing Service available to them locally, and even fewer know how to get the support of a Marie Curie Nurse. Working with Ashley House, Marie Curie can achieve greater contact and involvement with Doctors and PCTs. This co-operation will see Fields of Hope being planted at our surgeries, information and contacts being available to patients GPs and Nursing staff and even space for Marie Curie nurses to provide a support and counselling service to patients.
Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, Marie Curie Cancer Care is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the NHS and during this year, 2010, expects to provide care to around 29,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in its hospices. Ashley House is hoping to make a significant contribution to this work.