About Us
Behind the scenes
Hospice Marlborough provides compassionate, high-quality, specialist palliative care services in a person’s own home or place of residence, in hospital or in the hospice inpatient unit whilst also delivering care and support for family and friends throughout a patient’s illness, death and in bereavement.
Our team empathise with the emotional challenges that can come with receiving the diagnosis of a life-limiting illness, and we understand that the comprehensive care required goes beyond addressing physical symptoms, encompassing support for both patients and their whānau, acknowledging the social, emotional, and spiritual aspects of their illness.
Referrals – Hospice Marlborough can receive referrals whilst people are undergoing treatments for their illness, and we link in with General Practitioners (family doctor) and other healthcare agencies and organisations such as District Nurses or home care providers, we are not just for end-of-life care. In fact, early referrals allow us to better understand patients, their families, and friends, enabling tailored care to meet their needs and wishes.
Self-Referrals – You or your family can also self-refer to Hospice palliative care by giving our team a call on (03) 578 9492 and we are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and in the community.
Our services are free of charge to patients and their families irrespective of their religion, ethnicity, or age; however, there is a cost to provide them. Currently Hospice Marlborough receives just over 50% of our annual funding through Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) with shortfall being raised every year through the generous support of our community, at our Hospice Shops and through fundraising activities.
The Marlborough Hospice Trust
Hospice Marlborough owes its existence to the vision, dedication and longstanding efforts of many people over a number of years. This includes the Marlborough Hospice Trust, the Marlborough Hospice Foundation and The Salvation Army, all of whom played an important role in its establishment, success and continued development.
Today, the Marlborough Hospice Trust, a registered charitable trust governed by a passionate and skilled local volunteer Board, provides governance and oversight of Hospice Marlborough, supporting management in the delivery of specialist palliative care services. Together with the Marlborough Hospice Foundation, the Trust forms Hospice Marlborough.
While the Marlborough Hospice Foundation exists to invest in the future of the organisation, creating a lasting legacy for generations to come, the Marlborough Hospice Trust focuses on governance and supporting the ongoing delivery and development of specialist palliative care services for our community. Its role is to provide strong leadership and oversight, helping to inspire long-term, transformational change and secure the future of Hospice Marlborough.
The Marlborough Hospice Trust – Registered Charitable Trust #CC27039
The Marlborough Hospice Trust continues our mission to support the Hospice teams grow and develop palliative care services in the community.
Our strategic direction encompasses the following themes:
- continuing to build robust and sustainable relationships with the Marlborough community.
- providing exceptional quality of care and support to our community
- working with our wider [health] partner network, Te Whatu Ora, Hospice NZ, and all Hospice services around New Zealand; and
- continually reviewing and developing robust policies and processes.
All the above is impossible without volunteers, our fundraising team, and our Hospice Shops in Redwoodtown. We are fortunate and grateful to everyone who helps us in achieving our goals, for the amazing work they do. As always, future success will depend on the continued financial support from our community and commitment from our employees and volunteers.
Thank you for your support.
Hospice Marlborough has the vision of ensuring our Marlborough Community has equitable access to specialist palliative care and can live and die with compassion, dignity, in comfort and in peace, preferably, in their place of choice.
Hospice Marlborough are committed to the following core values in the delivery of hospice palliative care:
- Compassion and Respect – Aroha me te Whakaute
Treating others with care, using humility and fairness in our interactions with others maintaining their dignity, being empathetic and encouraging throughout. - Collaboration and Inclusion – Mahi tahi me te Whakauru
Working alongside and with others in the community, valuing individual cultural and diverse differences especially Māori and Pacifica. - Excellence and Integrity – Te Kairangi me te Ngaiotanga
Embracing the highest standards whilst being responsible and accountable for all individual and collective actions. - Ambition and Innovation – Hao me te auaha
Constantly seeking new ideas and striving for better solutions. Achieving success by working together and valuing each other’s skills and contributions.
The Marlborough Hospice Foundation
The Marlborough Hospice Foundation is an independent organisation built on a proven model of regionally based philanthropy. Its purpose is to help secure the long-term future of Hospice Marlborough. Together, the Marlborough Hospice Foundation and the Marlborough Hospice Trust form Hospice Marlborough.
While the Marlborough Hospice Trust provides governance and oversight, supporting the management and delivery of specialist palliative care services, the Marlborough Hospice Foundation has a different but equally important role: to invest in the future of Hospice Marlborough and ensure that generosity today creates a lasting legacy for generations to come.
Governed by a passionate and skilled local volunteer Board, the Marlborough Hospice Foundation works to build sustainable, long-term funding streams by investing and growing the bequests and significant donations it receives. Guided by a carefully developed investment model, the Foundation aims to maximise the impact of every contribution, helping to ensure the ongoing sustainability of specialist palliative care services throughout Marlborough.
Our People
Our team extends beyond our amazing healthcare professionals, including our dedicated doctors, nurses and care specialists. We are also supported by an incredible team of administration and retail staff, whose work helps raise vital funds and enables our clinical team to deliver the highest standard of care.
We often hear feedback from our community describing our team as angels, recognising our ability to listen, laugh and share a conversation at just the right moments. We are also frequently commended for the positive difference we make to end-of-life experiences, not only for patients but also for their whānau and the wider community.
Every member of our team is driven by compassion, empathy and a deep understanding of individual needs, striving every day to make a meaningful difference when it matters most.
On the following pages, you will meet the people who lead the Marlborough Hospice Trust, alongside the Hospice Marlborough leadership team and key administration staff who work directly with our patients, whānau and community.
Hospice NZ
Hospice New Zealand are the national organisation representing all hospice services in New Zealand, they don’t have a “head office” role as all of hospice members are independently governed and managed at a local level.
Hospice NZ works in partnership with all member services to ensure people needing end of life hospice care are well supported.
- About Hospice New Zealand
- Downloadable guide to learn more about Hospice Care / Ngā manaaki a te hospice (English and Te reo Māori)
- Your Guide to Hospice Care
- Information for carers & whānau
- Bereavement Care
- Frequently asked Questions
- Comprehensive Resource Library
- National Campaigns
- Hospice New Zealand News