News and stories

A young woman’s determination to celebrate Christmas one more time has inspired our Care This Christmas appeal.

Nurse Cathy, our Outpatient Care Lead, invites you to remember loved ones this Christmas while continuing a family tradition that began more than 20 years ago.

Remembering loved ones and celebrating their lives were at the heart of Walk to Remember at Shugborough Estate on Saturday, 26 September.

After his father received compassionate care from our hospice team, Antony Walker was determined to give something back. His way of saying thank you took him across the Sahara Desert.

Penny has signed up for our new firewalk challenge – walking barefoot across hot coals – in memory of her best friend, Lynn Ecclestone, and to support our hospice team who cared for her.

After almost three decades leading our charity, Richard will leave Katharine House Hospice on 8 May to begin a new chapter at the Hospice of the Good Shepherd in Chester.

Over the past year, our volunteer phone support service has helped patients and carers feel less isolated while preventing avoidable hospital admissions. Now, we’re expanding the service to reach more people, earlier in their illness.

We’ve launched a new four-week wellbeing programme to support local people who are caring for loved ones with an incurable illness.

Planning permission has been approved for the refurbishment of our Inpatient Unit at our site on Weston Road, Stafford.

Britain’s Fittest Farmer, Emily Meakin – recently crowned Women Under 40 champion at Jeremy Clarkson’s pub, The Farmer’s Dog – is supporting our Care this Christmas fundraising appeal.

She shares how our care helped her dad, John, spend his final Christmas at home with his family.

When Karl Marsh’s health suddenly declined, our inpatient team and local community came together to make his wish to marry his fiancée, Sarah Wooley, a reality in just 48 hours.

Open to the public, this signposted wellbeing walk will also be used by our staff to support patients, their families and loved ones.