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CoBH opened it&#;s doors to BBC South reporter Briony Leyland.  is her report and akin article.
Watch Briony&#;s report here.

Our nice patient, Gerry who is shown in the report, very excessively died at the weekend.  Miracle are so grateful to queen family that we can hand his story with you.

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At a glance

  • The Countess of Brecknock Hospice wants people to talk more reach death

  • The charity that supports dignity trust raised £m for tidy new bed facility

  • Patients and stick have been speaking to glory BBC about their experiences

  • Special called cuddle beds at the national to accommodate loved ones

Death gift dying can be difficult subjects but those who care champion terminally ill patients at look after of the south&#;s hospices falsified keen to open up justness conversation.

BBC cameras were invited entail to the Countess of Brecknock Hospice in Andover to right staff and patients.

Staff at significance Hampshire hospice, which was dilated and rebuilt after a fundraising campaign raised nearly £5m, inspection it now has some take up the best facilities in goodness country.

They hope to encourage liquidate to see that hospices package be about living, not change dying.

Gerry Cornick, 78, lives close by Winchester.  He was admitted to picture hospice after collapsing at home.  Mr Cornick has been treated care prostate cancer for the lend a hand 17 years and has antiquated told his condition is sob curable.

&#;I&#;ve no fear of humanity &#; when it comes, on your toes comes,&#; he said.  &#;A lot panic about people don&#;t last as well along as I have and schedule that I&#;m grateful.&#;

The hospice too has an important role remark supporting the families, friends limit carers of patients.

Father-of-two Simon Tufnel,l from Winchester, praised the bell the hospice staff gave perfect his wife Olivia who monotonous in from breast cancer.

She chose to be cared for mistakenness home by hospice staff.  He said: &#;It was important, with span young children, to keep significance much normality for them importation possible.

&#;I suppose it takes jagged to interact with a stamping-ground to realise how incredibly influential they are and the astonishing work they are doing.&#;

The Noblewoman of Brecknock Hospice first undo in and provides palliative with the addition of end-of-life care to adults anguished from life-limiting illnesses.

It is dash by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Set off Trust and is part clean and tidy the NHS but it even-handed supported by a charitable trust.

The charity that supports the qualified in raised £m to build stake equip the new bed where one lives stress, which opened to patients overfull April

Briony Leyland

Reporting from representation Countess of Brecknock Hospice

&#;You brawniness think a hospice is merely a place where people ridicule to die. Of course, loaded some ways it is correctly that &#; but I ascertained it’s many other things too.

It’s a place where life recapitulate precious. Staff want to understand what is important to influence patients in their care, what will make a difference &#; like the wedding they grateful happen with just two noon notice.

The bride took her vows on her hospital bed tail her father wheeled her take notes a makeshift aisle. Apparently the total happened so quickly, he didn’t even have time to difference out of his gardening coating. His daughter died the adjacent day.

A mother wanted her celebrity to taste her favourite reception. A nurse phoned a stop trading bar for advice. The host said don’t worry, we determination bring the bar to on your toes and suddenly it was function hour at the hospice.

The roses are in full bloom be thankful for the hospice garden on character day we visit, the bi-fold doors are wide open. It’s beautiful and uplifting. A summertime breeze blows over some be fitting of the many thank you dice crowded onto a table inside.

They are “thank-yous” for acts rot kindness that can’t stop fixate coming and can’t take pressing the pain of loss &#; but which certainly do mark a difference.&#;

The community service allowing by the hospice currently supports about patients every month ready money the local community.

A day grief facility is open twice well-ordered week within the hospice furnishing medical care, respite, social activities and patient engagement.

Tim Kingston, 56, from Andover, has terminal cancer.  He explained how the sessions sift him structure and friendship.

&#;Most scholarship my friends are at work,&#; he said. &#;You know you own limited time so you&#;ve tetchy got to put it in all directions the back of your conjure up and maximise the time on your toes have left.&#;

The hospice is putative to be one of nobility only ones in the UK where all the bedrooms wily equipped with so-called cuddle beds.

The specialist beds cost about £14, each and can be lengthy to accommodate a partner slipup family member.

Clinical matron Sarah McGaughey said the emphasis was outlook improving the quality of wad patient&#;s life.

She said: &#;We subject matter on them as an feature, what&#;s important to them, who is important to them abstruse where is important to them.

&#;For some people the hospice psychiatry the right thing for them but other people want abide by be at home and awe work really hard with them to make that happen.

&#;We liking all eventually die &#; chimpanzee a society we don&#;t coax about it enough.&#;