Dignity, tea and fundraising at Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre

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Jan 23, 2015

A Plymouth children’s charity that promotes compassion and dignity will be at the heart of the Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre’s Dignity in Action Day on Friday 30 January.

During Dignity Action Day (1 February), health and social care professionals particularly promote dignity in their work; they encourage members of the public to give their views on what dignity means to them and ask what their services can do to make individuals feel in control of their treatment and visits.

The team at the Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre will also be raising funds for Plymouth-based charity Jeremiah’s Journey, which provides support to children and young people who have experienced a close bereavement.

The team at the centre on Plymouth International Business Park will be holding a “Digni-Tea” party from 2pm, which is open to members of the public as well as patients, colleagues and visitors.

Sue Farrell, the centre’s clinical effectiveness and governance manager, said: “The team will be making cakes and we will be selling them for the charity. In addition to this we will have a Dignity Memory Book where colleagues and patients can comment on what dignity means to them. We are committed to offering all our patients the highest levels of care and dignity and we will use this to see if there are any ideas that can help us further promote dignity within the centre.”

Hospital director Patricia Warwick said: “Maintaining patients’ dignity is a fundamental part of all we do here at the centre. Dignity Action Day gives us all a valuable opportunity to think about how we contribute to upholding people's rights to dignity and how we can find new ways to increase a patient’s sense of choice, control and their experience of our service.

“We are all looking forward to making it an extra special day and demonstrating that everybody in the community has a role to play in upholding Dignity in Care. It also gives us the opportunity to raise funds and awareness for a special charity that has helped so many families in the region.”