PATCH is the first charity specifically to support 24/7 specialist palliative care for patients in hospital. What we do
Palliative care is relief from pain and other distressing symptoms, plus time for careful conversations and planning with patients and families. In hospitals, those needs are common, and too often unmet.
Since its founding, PATCH (Palliation and the Caring Hospital) has established itself as a uniquely focused force in Scottish healthcare — the only charity specifically dedicated to improving 24/7 specialist palliative care for patients in hospital.
Read moreThe Dundas Medal is awarded jointly by PATCH and The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh recognising professional excellence in the field of palliative care.
Read morePATCH supports hospitals to improve palliative care so patients can receive high quality care when they need it, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A patient is the most important person in our hospital. He is not an interruption to our work; he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our hospital; he is part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him; he is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so.
