Shooting Star Children's Hospice
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The Shooting Star House Children's Hospice is a UK based children's registered charity. The charity provides care and support for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
The hospice consists of 10 children's bedrooms and 6 family rooms. Other facilities include The Hydrotherapy Pool & Spa, The Sensory Room and wet and dry play areas. Care and support is offered to children and families, free of charge, 365 days a year.
£2.5 million is required each year to run the hospice service, which is raised entirely from voluntary charitable donations.
[edit] History
The Shooting Star Children's Hospice was founded in 1995 with the aim of "Enhancing quality of life, when every moment counts". There are up to up to 1500 life-limited children, young people and their families in the western half of London and north Surrey who could benefit from the hospice care service at Shooting Star House
[edit] Services
The Shooting Star Children's Hospice offers the following services to the children and their families:
- Respite breaks
- Care in the child's own home
- Post diagnosis support and counselling
- End of Life care
- Bereavement counselling and support
- Advocacy to facilitate access to other services
- Support for the whole family
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