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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!

Read the report and hear what our patients say....

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 some great gifts including Songs Of Sunshine, an inspiring collection of choral music sung by Wells Cathedral Choir and much more!

Professional Development & Learning

Academy Nurse icon

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

Adding Life to Days

Adding Life to Days film

This short film will challenge your thinking about hospice care.

Match Funding obtained for charity event

Santander pic 2013Thank you to the staff at Santander of Wells . Their involvement with the Wells Fashion show and wine tasting has enabled the hospice to receive a donation of £2,500. resulting in a total of £5,000 raised on the evening. This is a wonderful boost to the cost of providing specialist palliative care to local people. Thank you so much"

Gurkha too old to fight

The Gurkha Military Tattoo at Hazlegrove

Sat 31st August Hazlegrove School (A303 Sparkford)

£15 adults £6 children

Tickets available online

Ride London PrudentialRide London Strap Line

St Margaret’s Hospice is excited about holding places on the Prudential Ride London event, the ‘marathon on wheels’! This is a 100-mile race through the closed streets of London and the Surrey Hills. If you have your own place on the ride and would like to take part and raise valuable funds for St Margaret’s Hospice, please get in touch with Events Fundraiser Brooke Brownlow for more details.

British London Ride

Join St Margaret’s Hospice for The British 10k London Run on Sunday 14 July 2013. This is London’s most iconic 10K and is staged on the world's greatest road race route through the heart of central London passing many of the capital's truly world class historic landmarks. For more information contact the Events Fundraiser Brooke Brownlow tel 01823 365604 or email:Brooke.Brownlow@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk

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

 
Registered Head Office: St. Margaret's Somerset Hospice, Heron Drive, Bishops Hull, Taunton, Somerset TA1 5HA | Tel: 01823 345901 | A company limited by guarantee.
Registered in England No. 1471345. Registered Charity No. 279473
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