Walker Laird are delighted to continue to support the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice
At Walker Laird, we are always pleased to support charities and our local community. For a 3rd consecutive year, we are looking forward to attending The Business Lunch at the beginning of October. The lunch is always a tremendous success and brings together professionals and clients from across Glasgow and surrounding areas.
The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice supports 1200 new patients and their families every year to achieve the best quality of life. It understands that people need help to cope with the consequences of being diagnosed with a life-limiting or life-shortening illness, and staff work as a team to provide specialist holistic care and support.
Its team of doctors, nurses, therapists, counsellors, chaplains, social workers and volunteers treat patients in their own homes, at other places of care, and in the hospice.
The hospice’s motto is: where it may not be possible to add days to lives, we aim to add life to days.
Glasgow’s Hospice has been proudly looking after the people of Glasgow at its current home in Carlton Place, on the banks of the River Clyde, for more than 30 years. Ronnie McGinlay (Partner), Anna Brown (Trainee Solicitor) and Hazel McGinlay (Business Development Manager) recently visited the hospice for further insight into the daily running of the hospice. They were overwhelmed after their visit and are determined to continue supporting the hospice in as many ways as possible.
After adapting and adjusting the four townhouses where the hospice is based, it is building a new hospice to expand its services. To be able to continue to care for patients, carers, families and friends for many years to come, the hospice started out on an ambitious project to build a state-of-the-art facility in Bellahouston Park, ready for patients to move in Spring 2018 and launched the £21million Brick by Brick Appeal. Walker Laird have been following the progress of the new hospice being built and are thrilled to see it finally starting to take shape.
The hospice’s new home will not only enable it to continue giving the best care to adults, but also provides the opportunity to open its doors to young people aged from 16. The move to Bellahouston Park is a fantastic opportunity to provide patients and families with more space and improved facilities.
The transition between services for children and adults can be challenging as young people leave a familiar care setting, and the hospice has been working to understand what the needs of these young people are to provide the most appropriate care.
As services for young people develops in the new hospice, they will have their own space to relax and enjoy the company of friends and family.
This will be the first hospice in the UK to follow the Sengetun model of care. This innovative state-of-the-art Scandinavian design puts patients and families first, and provides space for privacy, dignity and compassionate care for all ages.
The Importance Of The Hospice
It is based on research that shows the aesthetic design of a healthcare facility has a measurable impact on patients’ wellbeing. The idea is to offer patients the quality of life they deserve, in a place that looks and feels like home, and where the clinical and medical assistance sits firmly in the background. It is understood that patients need security, a sense of calm and a boost from life-giving elements that stimulate feelings in a positive way. What this translates into architecturally is private en-suite bedrooms for every patient with a wall of glass opening out to the garden area, and internal walls that can slide back to open up to a social space for patients.
A hospice for Glasgow had been a dream of Dr Anne Gilmore OBE who, with a lot of help and support, brought a permanent place of respite to the city back in the 1980s with the opening of The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice.
As Glasgow’s Hospice make plans to move to Bellahouston Park, her dream of a space housing excellent end-of-life care will be reborn in the 21st Century. Glasgow’s new hospice will be a special piece of architecture which will feel comfortably like home, be humble, dignified, unobtrusive, and private when required.
The legacy of the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice founder has helped to create a beautiful building that will benefit the city for generations to come.
Glasgow’s Hospice will bring the very highest standard of palliative care techniques to Scotland, while offering patients the privacy, choice and compassionate care that everyone with a life-limiting illness should experience.
As well as providing 16 en-suite bedrooms and more space for families to stay and eat together, the new building will allow Glasgow’s Hospice to expand its services to include young people.
Patients and families come first in Glasgow’s new hospice – from the design of patient and family friendly kitchens that will let those who stay and visit have the option of eating in the café and dining room or eating their own food with loved ones, to the family bedrooms where people can stay together to be close to each other.
The aim is to make the patient experience the centre of the new hospice in every part of the building.
The total of the £21million Brick by Brick Appeal to build a new home for Glasgow’s Hospice has now reached £19.6million. To donate to Raise the Roof, the latest phase of the Brick by Brick Appeal, visit www.ppwh.org.uk/donate or make a smaller donation of £5 by texting ROOF to 70660.
If you would like information on making a Will or Power of Attorney, please contact Ronnie McGinlay or Suzie Falconer at our Paisley office on 0141 887 5271 or Ross McGinlay at our Renfrew office on 0141 886 5678.
Please note, we are also happy to carry out home visits out of hours if you can’t make it into either of our offices.