Dorothy House Information

Our Approach

Dorothy House is a charity, founded on Christian principles of care. All our services in the community and the hospice are provided free of charge and with equal access to all. Our aim is to offer physical, psychological, social and spiritual care to patients and their families facing life threatening illness, death or bereavement, who have specific problems which need our specialist skills. In partnership with all others involved, we focus on quality of life, respecting the uniqueness of each person and their family. We seek to promote the development of palliative care through education of others and research.

To the best of our ability to strive:

• For the highest quality in all we do, to enable the best patient and family care.
• To recognise the commitment to staff and volunteers through support, education and development.
• To respect each person as an individual.
• For effective, open and sensitive communication.
• For effective teamwork and collaboration.
• To share knowledge.
• To review and evaluate all our services.
  
  

Who's Who

Dorothy House Hospice Care, as a registered charity, is required to have a Board of Trustees which is legally responsible for the activities of the charity

Trustees

Simon Coombe (Chairman)
Garry Peagam (Hon Treasurer)
Dr Imogen Batterham
Catherine Chambers
Fiona Cook
Rupert Dewey
Diane Hall
Dr Helen Kingston
Professor Stephen Lee
The Revd Roger Nunn
Sheila Reiter OBE
Ian Tomlinson
John Waldron
Helen Young

Senior Management Team

The day to day running of the hospice is delegated by the Board of Trustees to a team of senior managers, headed up by Sarah Whitfield, Chief Executive. They provide clinical leadership and support and deal with all the operational issues of managing staff and finances. The team consists of:

Sarah Whitfield - Chief Executive

Dr Trish Needham - Medical Director

Alison Stevens- Director of Nursing

Katrina Sudbury - Director of Fundraising and Communications

Wendy Barker - Head of Family Support

Peter Lennard - Director of Finance

James McDonald - Head of Retail

Helen de Renzie-Brett - Head of Education


Ten Year Review

In April 2007, Dorothy House's Chief Executive Sarah Whitfield celebrated ten years in post on 1st April 2007. The Board of Trustees asked her to write a review of the last ten years at Dorothy House. If you would like to read her review, you can download it in full (as a pdf document), Click here to download the ten year review [84kb PDF]