KATE'S HOME NURSING
Charity number: 1059680
Website: www.kateshomenursing.org
Description:
Kate?s Home Nursing is a local charity, employing the services of registered nurses to care for people in their own homes through the last stage of illness, offering support and care for the patient, their family and carers. In addition to nursing, we offer respite care, bereavement support and some holistic therapy.
We work very closely with the District Nursing Service, our local GPs and other multi-disciplinary teams to provide our nursing service for our local community.
Kate?s Home Nursing was formed when Kate King, a resident of Stow on the Wold was unable to remain at home being cared for during her final days of life because there was no national or local provision to enable this. Sadly for Kate, even though her needs were fairly simple, her wish to die at home could not be accommodated and she died in a local cottage hospital.
However, Kate left a challenge; in her will she bequeathed a dresser to be sold and the proceeds to be used to create a charity to provide for others the care she so desperately wanted. Kate?s advice to the friend tasked with this was to ?take a step of blind faith? and so, with the help of some local people and Stow Surgery, in November 1996 Kate?s Home Nursing was formed.