Published by Roberto Wenk.
Last updated date: June 20, 2016.
The first modern hospice, founded by Dame Cicely Saunders in 1967.
Finding that the medical system was rejecting the dying, she founded the modern hospice movement - based on the combination of “science, care and sharing” she demonstrated a holistic approach to medical practice attending to the patient's’ physical, social, psychological and spiritual well-being.
St Christopher’s care services are delivered to around 2,500 people each year in their own homes, in our Inpatient Unit and the Anniversary Centre in Sydenham and at the Caritas Centre in Orpington.