My granda was diagnosed with terminal cancer as an inpatient in ward 108. He had been a patient there over many years as he had a kidney transplant 22 years ago, so they knew him well. His dying wish was to be at home and the staff did everything in their power to facilitate this. It wasn’t an easy process but they kept us updated every day.
Once he was at home the out of hours nurses sat with him nearly every night. As we are a very small family we struggled being there day and night so when they stepped in and helped with the nights it allowed us to spend quality time with him during the day. We will never forget the kindness shown to us.
He passed away peacefully in his own home last week and we can’t thank the ward and out of hours nurses enough.
The NHS is absolutely amazing! We couldn’t have done it without everyone.
"Palliative care and support"
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