Sobell House Hospice

Sobell House Hospice
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Geography
Location	Churchill Hospital, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	NHS and Charity
Hospital type	Adult Palliative Care and Teaching
Services
Beds	20 Inpatient and Day Centre
History
Founded	1976
Links
Website	http://www.sobellhouse.org/
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice is an Oxford-based hospice serving the residents of Oxfordshire, England affected by life-limiting illness.

In 1976, Sir Michael Sobell and the friends of Sobell House (now the Sobell House Hospice Charity) donated the funds to help build the original hospice. The charity has since raised £3.7 million to build a new twenty bed hospice which was opened in 2003.

For thirty years Sobell House has been providing care and support to thousands, of residents throughout Oxfordshire, affected by life limiting illness. The focus is on the needs of the individual and on those that love them. Multi-disciplinary teams strive to offer dignity, peace, support and freedom from pain. The care is dedicated to the whole person, aiming to meet all their needs - physical, emotional, social and spiritual. The service is free to those who need it regardless of their beliefs, race or age.

The work of Sir Michael Sobell House is recognised as a World Health Organisation (WHO) collaborating Centre for Palliative Care, and this unique establishment contributes to education and research relating to palliative care on an international level.

The work of the hospice currently costs in the region of £3 million a year to run and continues in large part thanks to the work of the Sobell House Hospice Charity and the support shown by individuals and organisations throughout the county.

Sobell House Hospice Charity has operated since 1974 when Dr. Alstair Laing established the committee the Friends of Sir Michael Sobell House. The committee swiftly developed to become the Friends of Sobell House with Sir Michael Sobell as patron and the Duchess of Marlborough as president. By 1975 the membership of the Friends of Sobell House totalled 60 and Lord Trend (Rector of Lincoln College and formerly Secretary of the Cabinet) was Chairman. Later in 1975 the Charity Commission accorded the Friends of Sobell House charity status.

Thanks to generous donations from Sir Michael Sobell, the NSCR (currently Macmillan Cancer Support) and the people of Oxfordshire, the Friends of Sobell House had raised £ 300,000.00 by 1979 allowing the first hospice to be built and handed over to the public. The current hospice is very different from the building handed over in 1979, the light airy space was built following a £ 3,000,000.00 fundraising drive by the Charity. Funds were raised with donations from the people and business of Oxfordshire, and The Sobell Foundation.

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