By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The new Leighton Hospital will be a “health neighbourhood” and will include other services and possibly a hospice.
Russell Favager, of the Mid Cheshire Hospitals Trust, was updating members of Cheshire East’s health and wellbeing board on the vision for the new hospital, which he stressed was at an early stage.
A quiz night hosted by a Rotary club in Nantwich has raised £1,000 to support children with life-threatening conditions and their families.
Wych-Malbank Rotary Club held their annual quiz night in aid of Hope House and Tŷ Gobaith children’s hospices, raising £860 which the club then rounded up to £1,000.
St Luke’s Hospice will be staging its 20th Midnight Walk event in June between Nantwich and Crewe.
And this year it will feature an evening of entertainment with a concert by popular Robbie Williams tribute act, Scott Borley.
Quiz kings and queens in Nantwich have rounded off the year by giving a bumper cash boost to Hope House Children’s Hospice.
Regulars at The Black Lion Monday night quiz chipped into a collection and gave to a raffle to raise £500 for the charity at their last event of 2023.
Patients and staff at St Luke’s Hospice will be more comfortable this summer after a donation from two businesses in Nantwich and Warrington.
Twelve new portable air conditioning units have been donated and fitted throughout the Inpatient Unit at the hospice.
Patients from the LGBTQ+ community who wish to access hospice care will receive better support after a grant of £22,000 from Cheshire Freemasons.
The grant, in partnership with Hospice UK, will benefit patients at St Luke’s Hospice in Winsford as well Hospice of The Good Shepherd in Backford and East Cheshire Hospice in Macclesfield.
A nurse from St Luke’s Hospice has been given the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse by the community nursing charity The Queen’s Nursing Institute.
Kirsty Sewell-Threadgold, a specialist in lymphoedema management, has been given the honour for her high level of commitment to patient care and nursing practice.
Hundreds of fund-raising Santas put their best feet forward at Reaseheath college in Nantwich in aid of Hope House Children’s Hospice.
The colourful Father Christmases ran, jogged and ambled round the 5k circuit in fine spirits, as captured in these images by Peter Robinson.
Hundreds of Santas will be returning to Nantwich in December for the Hope House Children’s Hospices “Santa Dash”.
It’s the 10th year of the event, and this year will take place on December 12 at a new location, Reaseheath College.
Patients at St Luke’s Hospice and their families are using new Covid-safe visiting facilities funded by donations.
Since the start of the pandemic patients receiving end of life care have been able to have visits at their bedside from loved ones, with strict safety procedures in place.
Nurses from St Luke’s Day Hospice are moving services online to support even more people in Cheshire.
With face-to-face appointments cancelled by Covid, Day Hospice nurses and complementary therapists are offering support to patients from diagnosis who are living with a life limiting illness, through new virtual services.
Hope House Children’s Hospices will be running its “Big Night Out, In” event this December.
It will take place on the evening of December 5 and will be a live streamed event.
The Hope House and Tŷ Gobaith Children’s Hospices Christmas raffle has its biggest ever prize with players able to win up to £10,000.
Money raised from sale of raffle tickets is vital to hospices as they face being £1.25 million down due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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