Willen Hospice

Who we are

We provide free, compassionate care to adults in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas living with a life-limiting illness.

Our dedicated team provides specialist, personalised care to support patients and their family members, helping them to deal with the physical and emotional effects of both their illness and treatments.

Our care gives real comfort, eases pain and reduces anxiety for patients and their loved ones. We work closely with GPs, hospitals, community nursing staff and social workers to ensure that our care is practical, informed and supportive at all levels.

Even though only 15% of our running costs are met by ongoing NHS funding, we provide all of our specialist palliative care services free of charge. 

You can read more about how we’re funded and the difference we make in our impact report.

We simply couldn’t do what we do without the support of our wonderful community. 

Our culture and values

Our vision and values

Our vision

Our vision at Willen Hospice, is to be the lasting and thriving provider of free care to all people affected by life limiting illness in our community of Milton Keynes and surrounding areas.

This is made possible by a community working together continually to share in the delivery of the most assuring, equally accessible and advanced care available.

Our values

Our values are important to us and are at the heart of everything we do at Willen Hospice.

Compassion
We make time for people, are supportive and treat people with dignity. We always strive to provide a warm and welcoming atmosphere and will proactively seek feedback to improve performance.

Ambition
We strive to develop our skills to meet peoples’ needs. We set ourselves aspirational goals and proactively seek further knowledge and skills. We look for solutions not barriers and are courageous in trying out and embracing new ideas.

Respect
We always show respect to our colleagues and service users. We are inclusive and value diversity. We earn trust and give others our trust. We are thoughtful, transparent, open and honest in our communication with others and seek to understand what others feel is important to them.

Excellence 
We are professional at all times, take responsibility and are accountable for our actions. We are responsive, solution focused, flexible and adaptable. We do what we say we are going to and are rigorous in meeting the standards required for our area. Read more about how we achieve excellence at Willen Hospice.

We welcome your feedback! 
If you have been in contact with our staff and volunteers and they’ve shown that they are living our values,  we would love you to tell us so that we can share with them the wonderful work that they do.