About Us
History
‘There ought to be a place like St. Christopher’s Hospice here in Gwent’ Student Nurses, Symposium on the Care of Dying Patients, 1977
In 1979, Heulwen Egerton, a nurse tutor at Newport’s Royal Gwent Hospital set up the ‘Gwent Hospice Project Group.’ The group was made up of like-minded individuals who were concerned at the lack of palliative care available to the people of Gwent.
From our first year of operation, when St. David’s cared for six patients, St. David’s has grown to become the UK’s largest provider of hospice at home care, caring for over 2600 patients and families every year, at a cost over £4.6 million.
Our achievements include:
1979 15th September, the Domiciliary Care Pilot Scheme commenced. Miss Egerton working in a voluntary capacity
1984 Introduction of a night nursing service
1986 The Domiciliary Care Service extended to the whole of Gwent on 18th August
Miss Egerton awarded an MBE for her work
1995 Ystrad Mynach Day Hospice opened
1998 Day Hospice patients move from Cambrian House to Panteg.
2000 New premises for Panteg Day Hospice
2001 2-bedded Palliative Care Unit opened, based in a nursing home in Newport.
Resource Centre opened in Chepstow
Contracted nurses appointed to Hospice at Home service
Tele-Medicine video conference project launched
2002 Family Support Team established
2005 2-bedded Palliative Care Unit opened, based in a nursing home in Torfaen
I can only say how pleased we are with the care we have received from St David's Hospice and to thank you very much
