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Welcome to St. Margaret's Hospice in Somerset

St Margaret's Hospice is your local charity committed to providing specialist palliative care, advice, support and respite to patients and their families living in Somerset and parts of neighbouring counties. Our care is available for those who have a terminal or life-limiting illness, for example cancer, motor neurone disease and chronic lung disease. In 2010 St. Margaret's celebrated 30 Years of Caring for the people of Somerset.

Patient with nurseThrough our medical expertise, nursing skills and specialist support services, we offer physical, emotional, social and spiritual care to our patients and their families. Bereavement support is also available.

Our services are also available to patients where our specialist knowledge, skills and expertise will provide relief for their specific illness, such as symptom control, breathlessness management, lymphoedema treatment, physiotherapy and occupational and complementary therapies.

St Margaret's Hospice is fully registered under the Care Quality Commission >>More information on our patient services<<

Care Quality Commission

St Margaret's has 100% Compliance!!

St Margaret's recently had an announced inspection by the Care Quality Commission and we are proud to announce that we passed the inspection with flying colours!

To read the full report and hear what our patients say about us click here..
To read the letter from the Care Quality Commission click here..


Check out our shops!

Wiveliscome Shop front

Our expanding chain of 24 shops raises over £1million per annum read more

or visit our online shop where you can purchaseSongs of Sunshine 2012 Diaries and Calendars. Also available are some great gift ideas including Songs Of Sunshine, an inspiring collection of choral music sung by Wells Cathedral Choir!


Professional Development & Learning

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To find out more about the courses offered at St Margaret's Academy click here


Adding Life to Days

Adding Life to Days

This short film will challenge your thinking about hospice care.

You only need ONE number to access ALL St. Margaret's services

Central Referral Centre

We now have a streamlined information, advice, and referral process. For general information and advice, or for healthcare professional referrals to all patient services, there is only ONE number you need to remember...

0845 070 8910