New Director of Patient Services appointed |
| Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
 Sue Plummer is the newest member of the Hospice Senior Management Team. Sue has previous experience in patient services having most recently worked as Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Care at East and North Hertfordshire Trust. Sue has also previously managed the Specialist Palliative care Unit at Michael Sobell House and worked as Head of Nursing for Cancer at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre for a year.
Describing how she was attracted to the Hospice, Sue said ‘I saw The Peace Hospice as an organisation that was clearly moving forward with lots of potential. Having worked in the NHS for many years I was attracted by the option of working for an organisation that was not totally driven by NHS targets that were constantly changing, but can instead work steadily and thoroughly to improve services for patients. I was also impressed that the Hospice clearly has staff and volunteers who are committed to enhancing the quality of life for people with cancer and other life-threatening disease in South West Hertfordshire’.
Sue recognises that heading up the Patient Services area won’t come without its difficulties and highlights treating patients approaching death as a real challenge. ''Supporting patients with their choice to die at home, supporting patients with a non-cancer diagnosis, helping the general public to think about death and dying, developing services when resources are finite and ensuring that we meet the needs of all of our local community will be a challenge, but one that I am ready to role my sleeves up for’.
The Peace Hospice provides specialist palliative care for people from across South West Hertfordshire with cancer or other terminal illness. The care that the Hospice provides is holistic and looks after the whole person, and their family/carers, helping with emotional and spiritual issues as well as physical symptoms. The Peace Hospice focuses on enabling patients to live their lives to the full and providing the best quality of life when a cure is not possible.It costs £3.1m a year to provide these services and over 75% of this is supported through charitable donations. All the care that the Hospice provides to its patients is free.
For further information on the work of the Hospice, call us on 01923 330330 or visit http://www.peacehospice.org.uk
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