St Christopher's Hospice

St Christopher's Hospice
St Christopher's Hospice in 2005 Photo by Stephen Craven
Geography
Location	London Borough of Bromley, England
Coordinates	51°25′18″N0°03′31″W / 51.421608°N 0.058717°W / 51.421608; -0.058717
Organisation
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	End-of-life care (Hospice)
History
Opened	1967
Links
Website	www.stchristophers.org.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

St. Christopher's Hospice is a hospice in south London, England, established in 1967 by Cicely Saunders, whose work is considered the basis of modern hospice philosophy. ^[1]

Legacy

Among the first staff at St. Christopher's were nurse Barbara McNulty and GP Mary Baines, who began the first hospice home care project, ^{[2] [3]} and Florence Wald, who took Saunders' philosophies back to the United States to become the founder of the hospice movement in the United States. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

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. ^[7]

The hospice houses an exhibition of sculptures by the Polish artist Witold Gracjan Kawalec.

References

1. Connor, Stephen R. (1998). Hospice: Practice, Pitfalls, and Promise. Taylor & Francis. p.  5. ISBN   1-56032-513-5.
2. Clark, David (19 September 2002). Cicely Saunders - Founder of the Hospice Movement: Selected letters 1959-1999. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-166060-3.
3. Baines, Mary (September 2013). "A history of homecare: The pioneer days: Talk given at the Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK, 24 September 2012". Progress in Palliative Care. 21 (4): 200–203. doi:10.1179/0969926013Z.00000000077. ISSN   0969-9260.
4. Colby, William H. (2007). Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America. AMACOM Div American Mgmt. Assn. p. 205. ISBN   0-8144-0160-0.
5. Florence Wald Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine , Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame; Accessed 5 February 2009
6. Rierden, Andi "A Calling for Care Of the Terminally Ill", The New York Times , 19 April 1998; Accessed 5 February 2009
7. 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.

External links

• Official site