Moneybox help and encourage during Dying Matters Week
A free monthly legal clinic is one way East Cheshire Hospice helps patients and families prepare for the future. Advice on making a Will is among topics covered by Moneybox Wills and Trusts, Thorneycroft, Dunkerley and GPW Trusts, the four companies supporting the initiative. The half-hour advice sessions are available between 11 am and 1 […]
Vaccine Workers Donate to Hospice
Several workers helping with the mass vaccine roll-out at Andrews Pharmacy are donating their wages to charity. They include two couples with strong links to nearby East Cheshire Hospice which is benefitting from their generosity. Teacher Angela Raval is a Hospice ambassador, while Margaret Black is a part-time health care assistant, having rejoined the nursing […]
40,000 Jabs with Help of Hospice Staff
More than 40,000 Covid vaccinations have been carried out at Andrews Pharmacy this year – many of them by nurses from East Cheshire Hospice. Hospice staff have joined retired GPs and retired nurses, pharmacists and a paramedic giving jabs at the pharmacy on Kennedy Avenue, Macclesfield. Every Tuesday two nurses from the Sunflower Centre, which […]
Cuddly Grief Bears
Cuddly Grief Bears are bringing comfort to children coping with bereavement. Many of the woollen bears are knitted by East Cheshire Hospice volunteer Betty Malkin. The Hospice supports bereaved children, or those with a close relative with a life-limiting illness. Children choose their favourite six-inch bear colour and a personal message which is sewn into […]
Barbara Horry
Harold Horry only spent 15 hours as a patient at East Cheshire Hospice but it was long enough to leave a lasting impression on his family. They have never forgotten the care the former AstraZeneca employee received in those final precious hours before he died in 2012, aged 86. So much so that wife Barbara […]
Clinical Director Sandra Wins Prestigious Award
Clinical Director Sandra Jones has received a prestigious award to mark her ground-breaking safeguarding work at East Cheshire Hospice. Sandra, who has more than 40 years’ experience in adult nursing, has been given a Safeguarding and  Dignity Award from Cheshire East Safeguarding Adults Board. Her role as Safeguarding Lead saw her help implement a corporate […]
Corporate Challenge to Fund Bereavement Services
Bereavement services run by East Cheshire Hospice will benefit from the next Corporate Challenge in May. Firms and other organisations are being urged to sign up for the fun competition in which entrants raise as much as possible from a £100 start-up loan. All proceeds will go towards the expansion of the Hospice’s bereavement services […]
Warren Greveson’s Care
Vanessa Greveson has given an emotional account of how East Cheshire Hospice provided help when it was most needed. Her talented musician husband Warren died of cancer in October 2019, spending his last three weeks as a Hospice inpatient. He was 63. His health was declining when the couple moved to Macclesfield from Anglesey that […]
Review of the Year – 2020
Face shields, fundraising and a special farewell marked a year that East Cheshire Hospice will never forget. End-of-life care became much harder because of Covid-19 which prevented the Hospice from holding a single mass-participation event in 2020. Nurses showed amazing character and spirit – their brave efforts honoured during the emotional Clap for Carers tributes […]
A Challenging Year
East Cheshire Hospice is predicting a big financial loss because of Covid-19. The Hospice has been unable to hold a mass-participation fundraising event for over a year and has been forced to make redundancies. Chief Executive Karyn Johnston said: “We’ve been overwhelmed by the support from the community who’ve been incredibly generous. “Like us, they […]