Four south coast hospices are joining forces with over one hundred others from across the UK, as part of a Hospice UK-led campaign to encourage you to leave a gift in your Will.
Mountbatten Isle of Wight, Southampton's Mountbatten Hampshire, Oakhaven Hospice in the New Forest, Totton and Waterside, and Rowans Hospice in Waterlooville are taking part in a unique, country-wide campaign, called This is Hospice Care.
A national television advert will hit our screens on 17 February and it will run for a fortnight
Showing patients being cared for at home, surrounded by their families and with an ever-present hospice nurse on hand to support them, This is Hospice Care delivers plenty of emotional punch.
Hospices are up to one-third funded by the NHS. The majority of the money they need is delivered by fundraising and donations — including by money left to them in Wills.
These gifts — whether a set amount or a percentage of your estate, large or small — play a vital part in allowing hospices like Oakhaven, Rowans and Mountbatten to continue to deliver their care.
This is Hospice Care creates an evocative picture of the vital work of hospices — from caring for patients in their own homes to nursing on inpatient units, and from support through grief and rehabilitation to running clubs and groups, getting people talking and sharing their experiences.
Produced by Hospice UK, the television advert puts hospices at the very heart of our communities, including here on the Isle of Wight.
The campaign encourages viewers to search for their own local hospice. Around the Solent, depending on where you live, yours will be Rowans, Oakhaven, Mountbatten Hampshire or Mountbatten Isle of Wight.
Mountbatten Isle of Wight, CEO Nigel Hartley, MBE, said:
“Leaving a gift in your Will makes a vital difference. Donations like these play a crucial part in ensuring the expert care delivered by our staff is available now and will continue to be there for people who need us in the future.
“Any gift — large or small — will support people who are dying, on our inpatient unit as well as those we care for in our community, and their families.
“At Mountbatten, we know death can sometimes be difficult to think and talk about. Your decision to leave a gift in your Will will help ensure dignified, kind and expert care will continue to be available, should your loved ones need it in future.
“This is hospice care and what happens today is in part down to those who have died before us, and left their own gifts to Mountbatten. To them, we say thank you. Their kindness and forethought supports the work we are doing now.”
This is Hospice Care, produced by Hospice UK for 143 hospices including Oakhaven, Mountbatten Isle of Wight, Mountbatten Hampshire and Rowans, screens from 17 February, for a fortnight.
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