St. Christopher's Hospice is a
hospice
Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by ...
in
south London
South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames. The region consists of the Districts of England, boroughs, in whole or in part, of London Borough of Bexley, Bexley, London Borough of Bromley, Bromley, London Borou ...
, England, established in 1967 by
Cicely Saunders, whose work is considered the basis of modern hospice philosophy.
Legacy
Among the first staff at St. Christopher's was
Florence Wald, who took Saunders' philosophies back to the United States to become the founder of the hospice movement in the United States.
[Rierden, And]
"A Calling for Care Of the Terminally Ill"
'' The New York Times'', 19 April 1998; Accessed 5 February 2009 In 1971
Robert Twycross was appointed as a Clinical Research Fellow by Saunders. During his tenure there, his studies on the effectiveness of
morphine,
diamorphine and
methadone helped standardize and simplify the management of cancer pain.
[25 Years in Palliative Medicine at Sir Michael Sobell House: A Festschrift for Robert Twycross, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003; Szeloch H.,Hospice as a place of pastoral and palliative care over a badly ill person. Wyd. UKSW Warszawa 2012, ISSN 1895-3204.]
Features
The hospice contains sculptures by the Polish artist
Witold Gracjan Kawalec.
References
External links
Official site
Hospices in England
Charities based in London
Health in London
1967 establishments in England
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