Leave a legacy

Leave a legacy

Leave a gift in your will and help protect hospice care in our community for all, for now, forever.

This is hospice care

It is finality and uncertainty, brave faces and shedding tears. It’s short days and long nights. Living for now with the weight of tomorrow.

It’s everything you’d expect and everything you wouldn’t

It’s also love and life and celebration. It’s care at home, and in our hospice, care for those dying and for those around them. It’s going the extra mile, doing away with convention and remembering what really matters.

It’s easing pain and bringing comfort, cherishing memories and creating new ones. Part of the community, part of our story, part of us.

It’s allowing our patients to embrace the life they have left.

This is the legacy of hospice care. But we need it to be your legacy too.

It wouldn’t exist without you

Just as this incredible support would not exist without our hospice, hospice care would not exist without you. A gift in your will helps ensure care at the end of life is here for everyone who needs it, both now and in the future. It’s ours to protect.

Help hospice care live on for all, for now, forever.

To make a will, or amend an existing will, it is advisable to seek legal advice and talk through your plans with a solicitor, who will be able to advise on the best options available to you.

If you would like more information please contact Neal Williams, Trust Secretary neal@macmillanlocal.org or 01202 477628.

The following are two examples of ways to support us in your will. A Residuary Legacy and a Pecuniary Legacy.

Residuary Legacy – A Proportion of the Estate

I give (%) of the residue of my real and personal estate which I can dispose of by will in any manner I think proper to Macmillan Caring Locally (registered Charity number 1189412), The Macmillan Unit, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2JX, and the receipt of the Financial Controller of Macmillan Caring Locally shall be a complete discharge to my Executors.

Pecuniary Legacy – A Fixed Sum

I give the sum of (amount in figures and words) to Macmillan Caring Locally (registered Charity number 1189412), The Macmillan Unit, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2JX, and the receipt of the Financial Controller of Macmillan Caring Locally shall be a complete discharge to my Executors.

Please always give our Charity name, address and registered Charity number to your solicitor.

Charity Name: Macmillan Caring Locally
Registered Charity No: 1189412
Address: The Macmillan Unit, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 2JX

List of pharmacies 

 Pharmacy name and address

Phone Number

100 hour pharmacy

 Locality

Asda Pharmacy

St Pauls Road, Bournemouth,BH8 8DL

01202 298900

Yes

Bournemouth East

Castle Lane Pharmacy
482 Castle Lane West Bournemouth, BH8 9UD

01202 772110

Yes

Bournemouth West

Ferndown Pharmacy
487 Ringwood Road, Ferndown, BH22 9AG

01202 892666

Yes

East Dorset

Tesco Extra Pharmacy
Yarrow Road, Mannings Heath Poole, BH12 4NX

01202 457447 or 01202 367447

Yes

Parkstone

Asda Pharmacy
West Quay Road, Poole, BH15 1JQ

01202 207000

Yes

Poole Central

Equipment – www.redcross.org.uk Is useful for wheelchairs and other equipment

Guide for people nearing end stage of life : https://intranet.rbch.nhs.uk/uploads/palliative/documents/What-to-Expect.pdf

Brief Drugs List for GPs

 

Pain/breathlessness:

Morphine sulphate 2.5-5mg SC PRN (10mg in 1ml injection)

(alternative if taking PO or eGFR<30 – Oxycodone 1 – 2.5mg SC PRN (10mg in 1ml injection))

[Please take background opioid into account when prescribing doses for anticipatories]

Anxiety/distress:

Midazolam 2.5-5mg SC PRN (10mg in 2ml injection)

Secretions:

Glycopyrronium 200mcg SC PRN (600mcg in 3ml injection)

(alternative for secretions: Hyoscine Butylbromide 20mg/ml injection)

Nausea :

Levomepromazine 6.25mg SC PRN (25mg in 1ml injection)

(alternative for nausea: Haloperidol 1.5mg SC PRN (5mg in 1ml injection)

Water for injection

Dexamethasone 3.3mg SC OD-BD (equivalent to 4mg PO) if risk of steroid withdrawal/Addisons during terminal phase.

Day/Time Example Timetable
Monday – AM

9am MMU Ward Hand over; 9:30am Tour of MMU

10m Consultant Ward Round, MMU

Monday – PM

12pm Ward Nurses – syringe driver administration (treatment room)

1:30 Nursing Handover – MMU (ward office)

MMU – Admission Assessment(s) with ward doctor

Tuesday – AM

9am Ward Hand over

9:20am Referrals Meeting on MMU

10am Community visiting with Specialist Nurse

Tuesday – PM

12:30 Journal Club – MMU (doctors office)

2pm Introduction to Patient and Family Support Team

3pm Introduction to Welfare and benefits Advisor

Wednesday – AM

9am Ward Hand over

9:20am Referrals Meeting on MMU

10am Consultant ward round – MMU

Wednesday – PM

2pm Doctor/Nurse Home Visit with Specialty Doctor

Thursday – AM

9:15am Multi-Disciplinary Team Meeting on MMU

Thursday – PM

2pm Introduction to Palliative Rehabilitation with Physiotherapist

3pm Introduction to Complex Discharge Planning in terminal illness

Friday – AM

Hospital Palliative Care Team Ward Visits

Friday – PM

2pm Introduction to Personalised Care Plan for the Last Days of Life with End of Life Care Nurse

4pm Debrief / sign off