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Hospice awards care home accreditation for good end of life care

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St Helena Hospice has awarded an accreditation certificate to a Colchester care home for its good professional standards of end of life care.

Milton Lodge on Ipswich Road, Colchester, completed a range of training, shadowing and critical friend visits provided by St Helena through its Hospice Education programme, to develop the skills of their workforce and achieve best practice in end of life care.

Imelda Hodgkinson, practice educator at St Helena, worked closely with Milton Lodge, and praised the care home team:

“It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the team at Milton Lodge. From the moment I stepped in the door they made me feel really welcome and I could just see this is the residents’ home.

“It has been a pleasure and long may the great care that I witnessed continue.”

Registered manager at Milton Lodge, Trudi Snee, said:

“Having this award has cemented what we do. The training for us to learn and develop what we already had in place and to act on it, has been amazing.

“I look forward to us to continue to do this work and to be able to offer the end of life care to our residents.”

The Hospice Education accredited certification shows clients, families and professionals that care homes and care agencies have undertaken quality training from experts in palliative and end of life care. 

To achieve accreditation several requirements must be met and the care home must have a Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of good or above. 

Visit sthelena.org.uk/education for more information.

Image: St Helena Hospice has awarded an accreditation certificate to a Colchester care home for its good professional standards of end of life care

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