Anne Robson Trust Hospital News

Nursing Times Article: No One Should Die Alone
28/02/2020 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
We are very lucky to work in partnership with the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the wonderfully literate Shahid Sardar, Associate Director of Patient Experience. He recently wrote this article in…
A Letter to my Grandchildren
10/10/2019 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
We are constantly humbled by the amazing work of the Butterfly Volunteers. A member of one of the teams recently told us about a letter he helped a patient to…
Butterfly Volunteers make a huge impact!
09/09/2019 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Since our last post on FAB NHS Stuff in September 2018 our little charity has come a long way! Our work at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, in Harlow,…
Butterfly Volunteers are “Love in Motion”
27/06/2019 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Since February 2019 Butterfly Volunteer Coordinator Emma Taylor has been working away at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, recruiting and training a brand new team of Butterfly Volunteers. We recently…
Diary of an ART Butterfly Volunteer: Entry 4
30/09/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Reflecting back during my time as a Butterfly Volunteer at PAH, I remember being really apprehensive the first time I knocked on a patient’s room door when there were visitors…
Diary of an ART Butterfly Volunteer: Entry 3
07/08/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
We have spent 7 months at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow where our ART Butterfly Volunteers have provided 738 individual visits to 283 patients who are nearing the end…
Palliative Care Guidelines
30/07/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Back in 2015, new guidelines on end of life care were published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE – https://www.nice.org.uk/). These guidelines were designed to replace…
The impact of ART on Specialist Palliative Care Team at PAH
15/07/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Gill Hutchinson started working with the Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life team at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust in May 2018 as Macmillan Clinical lead. We asked…
5th July 2018 – NHS 70th Birthday Celebrations
06/07/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Jo and our team of ART Butterfly Volunteers from The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust spent the morning yesterday celebrating the 70th Birthday of the NHS, with other teams from…
Diary of an ART Butterfly Volunteer: Entry 2
17/06/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
The new cohort of ART Butterfly Volunteers are starting to visit patients at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow. One of the team, Tanya Cotter, has offered to write a short account…
Butterfly Volunteer Team Meeting
13/06/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Whilst Jo & her husband, Paul, were having afternoon tea at The House of Lords (yes, really!) by invitation of our esteemed Patron, Dr Peter Carter, we had a very…
A Difficult, Heart-Warming Experience
30/05/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Here’s a difficult, yet heart-warming story from four ART Butterfly Volunteers put together by Co-Ordinator Lead, Jo Corscaden. This account documents ART Butterfly Volunteer visits to a patient who has…
ART Butterfly Volunteer since May 2016
28/05/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
My name is Joy – and I very am proud to have been an ART Butterfly Volunteer since May 2016! In my day-to-day life, I work as an holistic…
Spotlight on Shahid Sardar
18/05/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Each Newsletter we will be shining the light on someone connected with our organisation, and first up it’s Shahid Sardar, Associate Director for Patient Engagement at the Princess Alexandra Hospital,…
Butterfly Volunteers at PAH, Harlow: An Update
15/05/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Since the beginning of 2018, the ART team, with Jo Corscaden at the helm, have been working with members of staff at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow to create a team…
Surely that’s what Hospices do?
10/05/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
When I speak to people about the work we do at the Anne Robson Trust (or ART) often the response is – “don’t nurses do that?” Until you have…
Diary of a Butterfly Volunteer by Tanya Cotter
30/04/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
28th April 2018 The first time I heard about the Anne Robson Trust was when I read an article posted by a local newspaper on Facebook. I was so moved…
25 Hours and Counting…
26/01/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Wow. What can I say? What an amazing two weeks we’ve had since the Anne Robson Trust Butterfly Volunteers launched on Monday 15th January. The team, lead by my wonderful…
Butterfly Volunteer Training Day – 9th Jan 2018
13/01/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Today is an Exciting day today for the Anne Robson Trust – training Butterfly Volunteers to support end of life patients and their loved ones at The Princess Alexandra Hospital,…
Launching the Anne Robson Trust
06/01/2018 Anne Robson Trust Hospital
Launching the Anne Robson Trust – Butterfly Volunteers Project today @NHSHarlow Looking forward to training our 18 wonderful volunteers next week who will start visiting #eol patients on 15th January!…

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