Welcome to St Nicholas Hospice Care
We are a charity providing a special service for people with terminal and life threatening illnesses and their families.
We work in partnership with our colleagues in health, social care and education.
Our aim is to improve the quality of lives of patients and their families during life shortening illness and bereavement.
Our services are available to those living in West Suffolk and Thetford and are provided by a skilled team of staff and volunteers.
We also welcome the opportunity to advise and guide professionals in supporting patients.
Advice to patients and family members
A 24-hour telephone advice line: 01284 766133 - is available for all patients and family members as well as healthcare professionals, including General Practitioners, District Nurses 
and Carers.
Or click on the cover to the left for an easy to read introductory guide for all patients and families to all our services.
The guide sets out an overview of our services as well as details of our Community Hospice Team, Orchard Day Therapy, the inpatient Sylvan Ward and support offered to family members.
Beds to re-open on Sylvan Ward
Two inpatient beds on Sylvan Ward will be re-opened thanks to "an amazing fundraising response from the community over the last year and a generous legacy donation which has helped our financial position".
The beds were forced to temporarily close last year because of the global economic crisis.
Each bed costs £100,000 annually to run and they will be reopened in early summer after the recruitment of new nursing staff is completed.
Barbara Gale, Chief Executive, said: "Since we told the community we had to shut beds, we've been touched by the responses to help.
"I, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, staff, volunteers and patients, would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has got behind us and responded so generously."
Recrtuiment for the ward nurses will begin immediately and anyone interested in applying should visit our Vacancies section for more details.
More on this story can be found here in our Latest News section.
