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| Thames Hospicecare (THc) is an independent charity, established in 2005 as a result of a merger between Thames Valley Hospice in Windsor and The Paul Bevan Cancer Foundation in Ascot. Both organisations started in the early 80's in response to the local need for a Hospice. Initially providing a home nursing service, the Windsor Hospice was opened by the Queen in 1987, with Ascot following in 1997. Thames Hospicecare is governed by a board of Trustees and run on a day-to-day basis by the Chief Executive, Jacqueline Clarke and the Senior Management Team. | 
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| The Clinical Team is led by a Consultant in Palliative Medicine who is responsible for delivering main services, the in-Patient, Community and out Patient Services. Although the majority of patients have cancer we are increasingly treating other life limiting illness such as Motor Neurone, MS, Parkinsons and renal failure. | 
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We have 17 in-patient beds and an out patient service available from THc Windsor. THc Ascot provides Community Services including THc's Hospice at Home nursing service. We care for approximately 1000 patients and families a year and work closely with other health providers, e.g. District Nurses, GPs, Consultants and other Specialists Palliative Care teams who may be involved in a patient's care.
THc is situated in both Windsor and Ascot and serves the local surrounding communities of East Berkshire and South Bucks. We have 120 full and part time staff and 530 volunteers working at the Hospices in Windsor and Ascot and in the 15 THc Shops
| The map shows the areas where the majority of THc patients and supporters live. It records the number of patients over a five year period and is broken into the following: IPU (in-patient unit) at Windsor, Day Support Unit in THc Ascot and H@H (Hospice at Home). It also shows the location of the THc shops and THc Fundraising Group, who all play a huge part in the day-to-day running of the Hospice. It currently costs approximately £5m a year to run the Hospice, with an average cost for each family around £4,000. We receive approx 20% from the NHS towards our costs which means we rely heavily on the generosity of supporters, donors, and legators to help provide our services along with the efforts of our own income generation teams to raise the remaining 80% and provide our services without charge to those in need of them. We have a separate trading company, based at Tinkers Lane, Dedworth which runs the THc shops and we are members of the Hospice Lottery Partnership. We have a Homestore & Donations Centre in Dedworth and 15 shops located in Windsor, Uxbridge, Crowthorne, Binfield. Woodley, Stainash, Sandhurst, North Ascot, Sunninghill, Maidenhead, Dedworth, Bracknell, Blackwater, Wokingham. |  |
