"People have died in the open air, in their beds which we have wheeled out onto the terrace garden", a hospice manager told me in suburban Surrey This was in response to a question as to whether it was only visitors who enjoyed the serene, meditative garden that had been designed around the new wing of the expanding hospice campusWhat is now commonly called 'the modern hospice movement', dates back to the establishment of St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, London by Dame Cicely Saunders in 1967, There are now over 250 dedicated hospices in the UK, and 8,500 modern hospice projects in 123 countries across the world: the number is growing all the time. In most countries the hospice movement remains largely inspired, administered and funded by religious or voluntary organisations - rarely the state The majority of hospices in the UK are managed and financed by local charities, giving them an unusual capacity for innovation in both treatment, care and indeed the design and administration of the buildings and grounds they occupy. Such has been the enthusiasm to develop hospices in the UK, it now seems that no medium-sized town can be without one.
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