Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre

General information

Arthur Rank Hospice Charity supports people in Cambridgeshire who are living with a life-limiting illness. Care and services are provided free of charge to patients, to help them and their loved ones to make every moment count.

Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is best known for delivering vital care to over 1000 patients each year through our specialist palliative Inpatient Unit, day therapy and Hospice at Home services. However the range of services the Charity provides is much broader comprising of the Specialist Palliative Care Home Team, the Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre in Wisbech, patient and family support (including counselling, bereavement and spiritual support), lymphoedema care, complementary therapy, pain management clinic, transport services and small grants; which collectively provide more than two thousand episodes of care to patients.

The Education and Learning Department enables specialist knowledge and expertise to be shared with other healthcare professionals, helping to increase the excellence of palliative care across the region. The team are Gold Standards Framework accredited and have been delivering this training since 2015.

To supplement the NHS contribution, the Charity are required to raise £2 million annually to fund the additional services provided by the Hospice.

Arthur Rank Hospice moved to its new £10.5 million home in Shelford Bottom in November 2016. Services and care are now delivered from state-of-the-art facilities which have been purpose-built with great consideration for patient need, also allowing for increased service capacity within a wonderfully spacious, attractive and therapeutic environment. The move enabled the Inpatient Unit to increase from 12 to a total of 23 beds.

Arthur Rank Hospice’s professional, compassionate and practical services deliver care, counselling and education, helping patients to live well and their families to live on.

For further information, please visit arhc.org.uk