BCUSG chairman Mike Taylor (right) with Helen Meehan, lead nurse in the palliative care team at the RUH, in the hospital’s new quiet room
The Bath Cancer Unit Support Group (BCUSG) has marked Dying Matters Awareness Week (10-16 May) by handing over a special quiet room it has funded at the Royal United Hospital where the palliative care team can talk confidentially with patients’ families.
A former storeroom next to the team’s office in the main hospital corridor has been refurbished and transformed into a comfortable and peaceful consultation room, away from the busy hospital wards.
The BCUSG has donated £14,318 towards the cost of the quiet room which will be used by the palliative care team to talk to patients’ families and carers about end-of-life care when there is no quiet room available on the ward.