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St. Columba’s needs to rebuild, to provide a new, visionary hospice which will ensure that we can continue to provide our patients with the comfort, dignity and highest standard of care that St Columba’s Hospice has always delivered.

We have already raised almost half the funds we need to rebuild the Hospice. A further £14 million will be needed to rebuild the Hospice, thereby ensuring we retain our place as the leading provider of specialist palliative care in Edinburgh and Lothians.

St Columba’s Hospice is your Hospice; built by the community for the community, St Columba’s Hospice belongs to Edinburgh and the surrounding areas and now we need the support of these communities to deliver a new world class Hospice.

Although visionary when they were first opened in 1977, our existing facilities now need to be upgraded. Our specialist nurses, doctors and allied health professionals, along with many support staff and over 500 volunteers, provide the highest possible quality of care. We need to rebuild the hospice to ensure that our facilities match this and support the delivery of the best possible palliative care to our patients.

 

Plans for the rebuild were submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council’s Planning Department in November 2008. They include a complete rebuild of the Hospice’s in-patient unit, improving the quality of facilities available to patients, and ensuring the in-patient unit is available to more people who need the Hospice’s help and support.

 

In fact, all of our services will benefit from the new development; out-patient services will benefit from a greater number of consulting rooms. Upgraded and expanded facilities will support the work of our much valued Day Hospice and the adjacent site at 17 Boswall Road gives St. Columba’s Hospice the opportunity to develop a brand new education wing, with a new lecture theatre and seminar rooms providing a platform to further develop the Hospice’s already successful education programmes.

 

St. Columba’s community palliative care nurses will, as always, continue to provide support to patients in their own homes.  

 

We look forward to updating these pages as the project develops.