PATCH mission and founding story
PATCH’s stated mission and the bedside moment that helped establish the charity’s drive for better specialist palliative care in Scottish hospitals.
To summarise the words of PATCH medical director, Dr. Pamela Levack:
“PATCH’s mission is to ensure that every patient, in every Scottish hospital can be confident that they will receive specialist palliative care, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, if they need it”.
The need for a charity like PATCH was first established at the bedside of a very ill patient, in a busy hospital ward, at a moment when his wife said: “There has to be a better way than this.” Those words sparked the challenge to strengthen specialist palliative care within hospitals—in Tayside and beyond.