St. Christopher's Hospice is a hospice in south London, England, established in 1967 by Cicely Saunders, whose work is considered the basis of modern hospice philosophy.[1]
Among the first staff at St. Christopher's were nurse Barbara McNulty and GP Mary Baines, who began the first hospice home care project,[2][3] and Florence Wald, who took Saunders' philosophies back to the United States to become the founder of the hospice movement in the United States.[4][5][6]
In 1971 Robert Twycross was appointed as a Clinical Research Fellow by Saunders. During his tenure there, his studies on the effectiveness of morphine, diamorphine and methadone helped standardize and simplify the management of cancer pain.[7]
The hospice houses an exhibition of sculptures by the Polish artist Witold Gracjan Kawalec.
↑ 25 Years in Palliative Medicine at Sir Michael Sobell House: A Festschrift for Robert Twycross, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003; Szeloch H.,Hospice as a place of pastoral and palliative care over a badly ill person. Wyd. UKSW Warszawa 2012, ISSN 1895-3204.
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