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Palliative Care In Hospital

Palliative Care In Hospital

Forest Holme Hospice has a hospital palliative care team comprising of specialist palliative care nurses and facilitators in end-of-life care who support patients within Poole Hospital.

Community Hospitals are supported by the community specialist palliative care team.

Continuity of care

Poole Hospital staff can refer to the team for advice on symptom control and emotional support for individual patients and their family whilst in hospital.

The hospital palliative care team ensures continuity of care on discharge by liaising with their community palliative care colleagues and other health care professionals in the community.

Education and support for all staff

The team also provides education and support to the staff involved in the care of people with life-limiting illness.

The team is available from Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm.

News

22nd Jul 25

MND charity Golf Day gives £3,000 donation

An annual charity Golf Day organised by Danny’s MND Mission at Ferndown Forest Golf Club has once again raised vital funds in support of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) causes, including a generous £3,000 donation personally delivered by Danny to Forest Holme Hospice Charity.

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21st Jul 25

Struck Gold

Having recently scooped the top prize in the ‘Community Support’ category at the Poole Business Awards for our Bereavement Café, we were absolutely thrilled to take home Gold in the same category at the BCP Business Awards.

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24th Jun 25

Charity champion takes dream Ant & Dec holiday after raising £10,000

Forest Holme’s long-time supporter, Paul Payne, jetted off to Menorca for a well-earned break — thanks to ITV’s Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway — after raising £10,196 at his sixth annual charity Golf Day hosted at Knighton Heath Golf Club in Poole.

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19th Jun 25

Community comes together to remember loved ones at Tie A Yellow Ribbon

The Mayor and Sheriff of Poole were amongst hundreds of people who gathered in Poole Park to honour the memory of loved ones at Forest Holme Hospice’s annual Tie A Yellow Ribbon event.

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21st May 25

University Hospitals Dorset awards success

Forest Holme Hospice’s Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse, Sarah Burrows, scooped the top prize in the Patient Choice category at the recent University Hospitals Dorset awards in Bournemouth.

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7th May 25

Hospice at Home is expanding into Poole

Forest Holme Hospice Charity is funding an expansion of a Hospice at Home service expansion into Poole for patients under our palliative care services. 

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