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St Columba’s Hospice


6th September 2012
St Columba’s ‘AOIBHINN’ – The Story, by Maeve Gillies.

St Columba’s Hospice has been caring for patients in Edinburgh and the Lothians with cancer and other terminal illnesses since 1977.

The Day Hospice, In-Patient Unit and Community Nursing Team are all vital resources, providing specialist care to over 1,000 people and their families each year. The Hospice aims to help people live as actively as possible, from diagnosis, right up to the end of their lives. As well as the highest quality of clinical care, the Hospice also offers emotional, spiritual and practical support to patients, their families and carers. St Columba’s Hospice aims to help people face the most difficult experience they will ever go through, with confidence and dignity. All services are given completely free of charge.

St Columba’s Hospice is currently being completely rebuilt to create a state-of-the-art specialist palliative care facility. The Hospice has temporarily decanted all clinical services to House, Gogarbank for the duration of the rebuild project. St Columba’s Hospice will return to Trinity, North Edinburgh in 2014. St Columba’s is a charity, not part of the NHS. It costs over £6m per annum to keep our Hospice running and the Hospice is dependent on donations to find 67% of that money. The rebuild project will cost £26 million, £3 million of which still needs to be raised.

A rare Ardbeg 1974 Single Malt Scotch whisky bottled in a unique bottle designed by Maeve Gillies is to be auctioned to raise funds for an essential rebuild of St Columba’s Hospice in Edinburgh. See links below for more details.
 

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