Welcome to St Elizabeth Hospice
St Elizabeth Hospice
Healthcare Professionals
What we do
St Elizabeth Hospice was established in 1989 and cares for patients in East Suffolk who have a life-limiting illness for whom the focus of care is quality of life.
Our focus is quality of life -aiming to meet all of our patients' physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs whilst giving support and help to family, friends and carers.
Our services include an in-patient unit, day care services, out-patient clinic, a Hospice at Home service, family support team, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and complementary therapies such as massage, reiki and aromatherapy.
This enables us to:
- Help improve the quality of life for patients by enhancing their physical, emotional, social and spiritual care
- Provide support, information and advice to relatives/carers during illness and into bereavement
- Offer advice and make recommendations on pain and symptom management and provide support to staff caring for these individuals and their relatives/carers
- Provide education to enhance skills and knowledge of all staff involved with patient care through formal and informal teaching sessions
- Participate in audit and research, and disseminate relevant findings.
Getting clinical advice
The Hospice's clinical staff are available to advise hospital doctors, nurses and any other frontline healthcare professional about specific patients in their care. To phone 24 hours a day to the nurses station on our in-patient unit, please call 01473 727776.
Please note: we will take emergency calls from patients or carers known to the Hospice, but we cannot advise members of the general public whose details are not known to us.
For more information, please follow the links below:
Criteria for referral and acceptance
Did you know?
All of our services are provided free of charge.
Light up a Life
We would like to welcome you and your family to our Light up a Life events this Christmas. These services are open to everyone, not just those touched by hospice care, to remember their loved ones at this special time of the year.
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Donate furniture to the Hospice shops
We have a van and furniture team in place ready to pick up donations from you, wherever you are in East Suffolk, to be sold in our shop at Meredith Road.