Meet the team
St. Michael’s Hospice has over 100 staff and is assisted by over 700 volunteers.
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Care in the Hospice
St. Michael’s Hospice In-Patient Unit provides the best possible care for patients living with life-limiting illness.
Therapies
Supporting your independence and wellbeing
We work closely as a specialised team of therapists, offering Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy across our Hospice services.
Together, we focus on helping you manage symptoms, maintain independence and improve quality of life.
Our physiotherapists support areas such as breathlessness, mobility, balance and strength, while our Occupational Therapists help you adapt to changes in daily life, working with you, your family and carers to keep you as independent as possible.
Physiotherapy
As specialist physiotherapists in palliative care, we work with other members of the palliative care team aiming to help patients manage their symptoms better, optimise their independence, and quality of life. Physiotherapy can support you by offering individual assessment and advice on many matters, including breathlessness, exercise and balance, mobility assessments, and providing mobility aids, as well as much more. We can support you in maintaining and improving strength and balance by providing personalised exercises to complete yourself or complete with support from family and carers, at home, on the in-patient unit (IPU), as an outpatient in our gym, Living Well Service or within a group setting.
Motor Neurone Disease Clinics
Our service provides holistic, patient-centred care delivered by a specialist team including a palliative care consultant, specialist occupational therapist, specialist physiotherapist, and palliative care nurse.
We run a monthly MND clinic where patients are reviewed by a wider multidisciplinary team, including a neurologist, speech and language therapist, dietician, enteral nutrition nurse specialist, and an MNDA volunteer.
