St Margaret's Hospice Care provides specialist palliative and end of life care across Somerset, serving approximately 520,000 people. With over 350 staff and 900 volunteers, the hospice delivers 95% of its care in patients' homes or within the community, supported by two hospice hubs in Taunton and Yeovil, and a 24 hour advice line. The hospice combines excellent medical and nursing care with holistic support addressing the practical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of everyone facing a progressive life limiting illness. Services include community nursing, day hospice, specialist in patient beds, outpatient clinics, lymphoedema treatment, bereavement support and therapies, all provided free of charge.
267
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1980
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Private Healthcare
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A future where sustainable, high quality end of life care is accessible, tailored and available earlier, so more people in Somerset can live well and die well.
At St Margaret's, our mission is to deliver holistic and compassionate hospice care, so that we can help empower more people who have progressive life limiting illnesses to live fully and die with dignity.