Who we are

• President: The Lord Bishop of Manchester, The Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch
• Chairman of Trustees: Jean Jones
• Chief Executive: Terry McDonnell
• Hospice Established: 1971 - Heald Green; 1979 – Little Hulton; 1998 – merged with Neil Cliffe Cancer Care Centre
• St Ann’s Hospice is an independent charity no. 258085

Vision
To provide dignity and improve quality of life for all our patients.

Mission
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Hospice movement

The Hospice movement is one of the UK’s great success stories. The opening of the first modern hospice in 1967 in London was shortly followed in 1971 by St Ann’s Hospice in Manchester and St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield. There are now over 220 local hospices across the UK. The hospice movement has made rapid medical and social advances over the last 40 years both within the UK and around the world changing the way people are treated when faced with a life threatening illness. It is regarded by some as one of the greatest social innovations of the last hundred years.

Any of us might need hospice care one day.  One in three of us will develop some form of cancer during our lifetime and for those of us under the age of 65, one in three will not survive.  That one person in three will be a mother, father, grandparent, child, friend or colleague – people at the heart of a family, business or community.  Cancer related conditions count for 95% of all hospice admissions.

Across the country over £400 million must be raised each year to keep hospices going. This makes local charitable hospice care the largest fundraising cause in the UK. The government contributes on average 34% of running costs for adult hospices.

Partnerships and collaborations – a selection

Medical/clinical partnerships and collaborations:

• Local Primary Care Trusts (funding and clinical via commissioners and also through high level representation by St Ann’s 8 joint consultant posts with Christies, MRI, Stepping Hill, Hope Hospital, Salford Royal Hospital, Wythenshawe, Trafford General and North Manchester General hospital);
• Strategic Health Authority
• Rotational placement posts – St Ann’s runs these with the Christie Hospital and the Pulmonary Oncology Unit at Wythenshawe Hospital – a nurse from each of the three organisations enrols for a year’s placement with each nurse spending four months at each organisation.
• Collaborative research study days with Christie Hospital
• Reciprocal exchange with staff from the Renal Unit of Manchester Royal Infirmary and Hope Hospital
• Links made with Community Cardiac nurses in Trafford and South Manchester to widen access to services for patients with non-malignant disease
• Outreach Complementary Therapy Service, delivered to patients living in Central Manchester and operated from the Neil Cliffe Cancer Care Centre in partnership with Manchester PCT (carers are encouraged to access this service)
• Invited by the National Cancer Action team to contribute to the development of a national specification for overview assessment processes in supportive and palliative care (physical, psychological, spiritual and social assessment).
• Hospice chosen by General Medical Council to present its Manchester workshop to demonstrate the way in which the GMC’s ‘Witholding and Withdrawing Medical Treatment Guidelines’ are used at St Ann’s with excellent feedback on Hospice assessment process and involvement of patients in decision making.
• Actively working as a pilot site to link with N3, the NHS IT network – to enable patient notes to be shared electronically

Funding – campaigning

Since 2006, worked with Eccles MP, Ian Stewart and latterly Cheadle MP, Mark Hunter to campaign across the North west and nationally for fairer funding for Hospices resulting in an Early Day Motion (2007), a question posed during Prime Minister’s Question Time in February 2008 followed by an invitation for St Ann’s and four MPs to meet Gordon Brown and Health Minister Ivan Lewis on 7 May 2008.

Hospice partnerships

• Help the Hospices, national umbrella organisation for hospice movement
• Terry McDonnell, Chief Executive of St Ann’s Hospice, is the regional representative for over 30 hospices in the North West for the National Advisory Group of Help the Hospices
• National Fundraising partnerships over the years with Tesco, Argos, Royal Mail, KPMG, Towergate
• Strong links with Addleshaw Goddard, Manchester Airport, Manchester City Football Club, Marks & Spencer, Healthsure, Yorkshire Bank, Lloyds TSB, NM Rothschilds, Coutts, Bank of England, BASF, Basell Polyolefins, Cheshire Building Society, Hydes, O2, John Lewis, Pannone, Halliwells

Raising money

St Ann’s Hospice is a member of the Fundraising Standards Board, committed to the highest standards of fundraising practice and transparency. How do we raise funds?

• Individual donations (legacies, In memory donations, regular direct debit gifts, online donations, raffles, specific appeals for donations, Gift Aid)
• Volunteer committees and individual volunteer fundraisers
• Schools including our Young Citizen of the Year programme
• Businesses – working in partnership with companies
• Entertaining – balls, sporting dinners, fashion shows, concerts
• Annual Car raffle
• Charitable Trusts
• Our own St Ann’s Hospice Lottery
• Hospice Shops (11 shops in Edgeley, Romiley, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, Sale, Altrincham, Monton, Ladybarn, Sale, Walkden plus a furniture shop in Ladybarn)

Current capital requirements (outside of our £16,000-a-day target):

Read more details here.

 

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