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What the Peace Hospice provides:-

The Peace Hospice in Watford, Herts, UK is a centre mainly for cancer patients. It began life in a temporary building for some 3 years, but it's permanent home is the old Peace Memorial Hospital, built at the end of the First World War. After being completely gutted and refurbished, it was officially opened as a hospice in September 1996 by HRH Princess Michael of Kent, who returned to officially open the new in-patient unit on 12 September 2001.

'The Peace' is now a centre for hospice care for the whole of South West Hertfordshire and is providing day care for up to fifteen people at a time, plus up to eleven in-patients. It also has contact with five Macmillan community nurses who look after over two hundred families. Through our social work programme we care for a further one hundred families and also provide a cancer support group and a bereavement counselling service..New services are also being developed to provide cancer care for patients in their own home.

• skilled medical and nursing care
• help to relieve pain and control symptoms
• physiotherapy and complementary therapies such as aromatherapy and massage
• the opportunity for one-to-one attention and for mutual support
• a team of dedicated volunteers who provide who provide a range of services
• counselling and a bereavement service to relieve emotional and spiritual distress
• home visits from Macmillan community nurses and a qualified social worker

In May, 2001, the builders handed over the completed In-patient Unit of the Peace Hospice, Watford, and our first in-patients were received in early June. It was the culmination of the hopes and dreams of hundreds, if not thousands, of supporters who had worked to make this possible.